Imputing single-cell RNA-seq data by combining graph convolution and autoencoder neural networks

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Rao, J
Zhou, X
Lu, Y
Zhao, H
Yang, Y
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2021
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Single-cell RNA sequencing technology promotes the profiling of single-cell transcriptomes at an unprecedented throughput and resolution. However, in scRNA-seq studies, only a low amount of sequenced mRNA in each cell leads to missing detection for a portion of mRNA molecules, i.e. the dropout problem which hinders various downstream analyses. Therefore, it is necessary to develop robust and effective imputation methods for the increasing scRNA-seq data. In this study, we have developed an imputation method (GraphSCI) to impute the dropout events in scRNA-seq data based on the graph convolution networks. Extensive experiments demonstrated that GraphSCI outperforms other state-of-the-art methods for imputation on both simulated and real scRNA-seq data. Meanwhile, GraphSCI is able to accurately infer gene-to-gene relationships and the inferred gene-to-gene relationships could also provide powerful assistance for imputation dynamically during the training process, which is a key promotion of GraphSCI compared with other imputation algorithms.

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iScience

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24

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5

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© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Rao, J; Zhou, X; Lu, Y; Zhao, H; Yang, Y, Imputing single-cell RNA-seq data by combining graph convolution and autoencoder neural networks, iScience, 2021, 24 (5), pp. 102393

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