Title
CyTOFmerge: Integrating mass cytometry data across multiple panels.
Abstract
Motivation: High-dimensional mass cytometry (CyTOF) allows the simultaneous measurement of multiple cellular markers at single-cell level, providing a comprehensive view of cell compositions. However, the power of CyTOF to explore the full heterogeneity of a biological sample at the single-cell level is currently limited by the number of markers measured simultaneously on a single panel. Results: To extend the number of markers per cell, we propose an in silico method to integrate CyTOF datasets measured using multiple panels that share a set of markers. Additionally, we present an approach to select the most informative markers from an existing CyTOF dataset to be used as a shared marker set between panels. We demonstrate the feasibility of our methods by evaluating the quality of clustering and neighborhood preservation of the integrated dataset, on two public CyTOF datasets. We illustrate that by computationally extending the number of markers we can further untangle the heterogeneity of mass cytometry data, including rare cell-population detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz180
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Mass cytometry,Computer science,Cluster analysis,In silico
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tamim Abdelaal100.34
Thomas Hollt216511.86
Vincent van Unen351.08
B.P.F. Lelieveldt41331115.59
F. Koning571.16
Marcel J. T. Reinders61556104.09
Nir Yosef7598.33