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PRIME: a probabilistic imputation method to reduce dropout effects in single-cell RNA sequencing

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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 36, Issue 13, Pages 4021-4029

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa278

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  1. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea Government (MSIT) [NRF-2019R1G1A1004803]

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aSummary: Single-cell RNA sequencing technology provides a novel means to analyze the transcriptomic profiles of individual cells. The technique is vulnerable, however, to a type of noise called dropout effects, which lead to zero-inflated distributions in the transcriptome profile and reduce the reliability of the results. Single-cell RNA sequencing data, therefore, need to be carefully processed before in-depth analysis. Here, we describe a novel imputation method that reduces dropout effects in single-cell sequencing. We construct a cell correspondence network and adjust gene expression estimates based on transcriptome profiles for the local subnetwork of cells of the same type. We comprehensively evaluated this method, called PRIME (PRobabilistic IMputation to reduce dropout effects in Expression profiles of single-cell sequencing), on synthetic and eight real single-cell sequencing datasets and verified that it improves the quality of visualization and accuracy of clustering analysis and can discover gene expression patterns hidden by noise.

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