Journal
COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages 2181-2197Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.04.023
Keywords
scEFSC; scRNA-seq; Feature selection; Consensus clustering
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62076109, 32000464]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [CityU] [11200218]
- Health and Medical Research Fund, of the Food and Health Bureau, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [07181426]
- Hong Kong Institute for Data Science (HKIDS) at the City University of Hong Kong
- City University of Hong Kong [CityU 11202219, CityU 11203520]
- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong
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With the development of next-generation sequencing technologies, single-cell RNA sequencing has become an indispensable tool for revealing cellular heterogeneity. This study proposes a single-cell data analysis method called scEFSC, which combines feature selection and clustering to improve the performance of clustering algorithms. The experimental results on real datasets demonstrate the superiority of scEFSC over other methods. Additionally, the biological interpretability of scEFSC is established through gene expression analysis and enrichment analysis.
With the development of next-generation sequencing technologies, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) has become one indispensable tool to reveal the wide heterogeneity between cells. Clustering is a fundamental task in this analysis to disclose the transcriptomic profiles of single cells and is one of the key computational problems that has received widespread attention. Recently, many clustering algorithms have been developed for the scRNA-seq data. Nevertheless, the computational models often suffer from realistic restrictions such as numerical instability, high dimensionality and computational scalability. Moreover, the accumulating cell numbers and high dropout rates bring a huge computational challenge to the analysis. To address these limitations, we first provide a systematic and extensive performance evaluation of four feature selection methods and nine scRNA-seq clustering algorithms on fourteen real single-cell RNA-seq datasets. Based on this, we then propose an accurate single-cell data analysis via Ensemble Feature Selection based Clustering, called scEFSC. Indeed, the algorithm employs several unsupervised feature selections to remove genes that do not contribute significantly to the scRNA-seq data. After that, different single-cell RNA-seq clustering algorithms are proposed to cluster the data filtered by multiple unsupervised feature selections, and then the clustering results are combined using weighted-based meta-clustering. We applied scEFSC to the fourteen real single-cell RNAseq datasets and the experimental results demonstrated that our proposed scEFSC outperformed the other scRNA-seq clustering algorithms with several evaluation metrics. In addition, we established the biological interpretability of scEFSC by carrying out differential gene expression analysis, gene ontology enrichment and KEGG analysis. scEFSC is available at https://github.com/Conan-Bian/scEFSC. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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