Title
Interpretable factor models of single-cell RNA-seq via variational autoencoders.
Abstract
Motivation: Single-cell RNA-seq makes possible the investigation of variability in gene expression among cells, and dependence of variation on cell type. Statistical inference methods for such analyses must be scalable, and ideally interpretable. Results: We present an approach based on a modification of a recently published highly scalable variational autoencoder framework that provides interpretability without sacrificing much accuracy. We demonstrate that our approach enables identification of gene programs in massive datasets. Our strategy, namely the learning of factor models with the auto-encoding variational Bayes framework, is not domain specific and may be useful for other applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa169
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
36
11
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valentine Svensson100.34
Adam Gayoso200.34
Nir Yosef3598.33
Lior Pachter41026121.08