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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

Boosting Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis with Simple Neural Attention.

Oscar A Davalos, A Ali Heydari, Elana J Fertig, Suzanne S Sindi, Katrina K Hoyer

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Oscar A DavalosQuantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9608-5701
A Ali HeydariDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9141-3809
Elana J FertigDepartment of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3204-342X
Suzanne S SindiDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2742-4332
Katrina K HoyerHealth Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5443-0733

Funding

Mathematical Strategies to Uncover the Molecular Basis of Prion Transitions R01GM126548 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED · PI SINDI, SUZANNE · 2017 to 2020
$854k
Experimental and mathematical modeling of CD8 T cell dynamics in autoimmune diseaseR15HL146779 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED · PI HOYER, KATRINA K · 2018 to 2020
$554k
Learn, transfer, generate: Developing novel deep learning models for enhancing robustness and accuracy of small-scale single-cell RNA sequencing studiesF31HG012718 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED · PI HEYDARI, ABBAS-ALI · 2022 to 2022
$38k
NHGRI NIH HHS F31 HG012718NHLBI NIH HHS R15 HL146779NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126548
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A limitation of current deep learning (DL) approaches for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) analysis is the lack of interpretability. Moreover, existing pipelines are designed and trained for specific tasks used disjointly for different stages of analysis. We present scANNA, a novel interpretable DL model for scRNAseq studies that leverages neural attention to learn gene associations. After training, the learned gene importance (interpretability) is used to perform downstream analyses (e.g., global marker selection and cell-type classification) without retraining. ScANNA's performance is comparable to or better than state-of-the-art methods designed and trained for specific standard scRNAseq analyses even though scANNA was not trained for these tasks explicitly. ScANNA enables researchers to discover meaningful results without extensive prior knowledge or training separate task-specific models, saving time and enhancing scRNAseq analyses.

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Deep LearningInterpretable Deep LearningNeural AttentionSingle Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis

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PMID37398136
PMCPMC10312486

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