Clustering of Small-Sample Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data via Feature Clustering and Selection

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Vans, E
Sharma, A
Patil, A
Shigemizu, D
Tsunoda, T
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2019
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We present FeatClust, a software tool for clustering small sample size single-cell RNA-Seq datasets. The FeatClust approach is based on feature selection. It divides features into several groups by performing agglomerative hierarchical clustering and then iteratively clustering the samples and removing features belonging to groups with the least variance across samples. The optimal number of feature groups is selected based on silhouette analysis on the clustered data, i.e., selecting the clustering with the highest average silhouette coefficient. FeatClust also allows one to visually choose the number of clusters if it is not known, by generating silhouette plot for a chosen number of groupings of the dataset. We cluster five small sample single-cell RNA-seq datasets and use the adjusted rand index metric to compare the results with other clustering packages. The results are promising and show the effectiveness of FeatClust on small sample size datasets.

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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11672

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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

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Artificial intelligence

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Vans, E; Sharma, A; Patil, A; Shigemizu, D; Tsunoda, T, Clustering of Small-Sample Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data via Feature Clustering and Selection, PRICAI 2019: Trends in Artificial Intelligence , 2019, 11672, pp. 445-456