Title
Continuous-state HMMs for modeling time-series single-cell RNA-Seq data
Abstract
Motivation: Methods for reconstructing developmental trajectories from time-series single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) data can be largely divided into two categories. The first, often referred to as pseudotime ordering methods are deterministic and rely on dimensionality reduction followed by an ordering step. The second learns a probabilistic branching model to represent the developmental process. While both types have been successful, each suffers from shortcomings that can impact their accuracy. Results: We developed a new method based on continuous-state HMMs (CSHMMs) for representing and modeling time-series scRNA-Seq data. We define the CSHMM model and provide efficient learning and inference algorithms which allow the method to determine both the structure of the branching process and the assignment of cells to these branches. Analyzing several developmental single-cell datasets, we show that the CSHMM method accurately infers branching topology and correctly and continuously assign cells to paths, improving upon prior methods proposed for this task. Analysis of genes based on the continuous cell assignment identifies known and novel markers for different cell types.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz296
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,RNA-Seq,Computer science,Cell
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
22
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chieh Lin100.34
Ziv Bar-Joseph21207112.00