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ArticleCell reports2019

DoubletDecon: Deconvoluting Doublets from Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data.

Erica A K DePasquale, Daniel J Schnell, Pieter-Jan Van Camp, Íñigo Valiente-Alandí, Burns C Blaxall, H Leighton Grimes, Harinder Singh, Nathan Salomonis

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Article in Cell reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 135 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

135 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Erica A K DePasqualeDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.
Daniel J SchnellDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Heart Institute and Center for Translational Fibrosis Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Pieter-Jan Van CampDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.
Íñigo Valiente-AlandíHeart Institute and Center for Translational Fibrosis Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Burns C BlaxallHeart Institute and Center for Translational Fibrosis Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.
H Leighton GrimesDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA; Division of Immunobiology and Center for Systems Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Harinder SinghCenter for Systems Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15620, USA.
Nathan SalomonisDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. Electronic address: nathan.salomonis@cchmc.org.

Funding

The LungMAP Data Coordination Center for Next Gen Systems Biology of RespirationU24HL148865 · NHLBI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI Bruce J Aronow, Nathan G. Salomonis · 2019 to 2026
$12.4M
Mechanisms of granulocyte homeostasisR01HL122661 · NHLBI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI H. LEIGHTON GRIMES, Nathan G. Salomonis · 2015 to 2026
$5.3M
Targeting fibronectin in cardiac remodeling and fibrosisR01HL134312 · NHLBI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI BLAXALL, BURNS C · 2016 to 2018
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122661NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL134312NHLBI NIH HHS U24 HL148865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methods for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) have greatly advanced in recent years. While droplet- and well-based methods have increased the capture frequency of cells for scRNA-seq, these technologies readily produce technical artifacts, such as doublet cell captures. Doublets occurring between distinct cell types can appear as hybrid scRNA-seq profiles, but do not have distinct transcriptomes from individual cell states. We introduce DoubletDecon, an approach that detects doublets with a combination of deconvolution analyses and the identification of unique cell-state gene expression. We demonstrate the ability of DoubletDecon to identify synthetic, mixed-species, genetic, and cell-hashing cell doublets from scRNA-seq datasets of varying cellular complexity with a high sensitivity relative to alternative approaches. Importantly, this algorithm prevents the prediction of valid mixed-lineage and transitional cell states as doublets by considering their unique gene expression. DoubletDecon has an easy-to-use graphical user interface and is compatible with diverse species and unsupervised population detection algorithms.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsCluster AnalysisDatabases, GeneticHEK293 CellsHumansMiceNIH 3T3 CellsRNA-SeqSensitivity and SpecificitySignal-To-Noise RatioSingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareTranscriptomeartifact detectionbioinformaticsdeconvolutiondoubletmultipletRNA-seqsingle-cell RNA-seq

Identifiers

PMID31693907
PMCPMC6983270

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