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ArticleGenome research2024

Accurate estimation of pathway activity in single cells for clustering and differential analysis.

Daniel Davis, Avishai Wizel, Yotam Drier

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Article in Genome research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Pathway Analysis Interpretation in the Multi-Omic Era.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Daniel DavisThe Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7863-1521
Avishai WizelThe Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7217-653X
Yotam DrierThe Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel yotam.drier@mail.huji.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0003-1725-2995

Funding

European Research Council 949029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inferring which and how biological pathways and gene sets change is a key question in many studies that utilize single-cell RNA sequencing. Typically, these questions are addressed by quantifying the enrichment of known gene sets in lists of genes derived from global analysis. Here we offer SiPSiC, a new method to infer pathway activity in every single cell. This allows more sensitive differential analysis and utilization of pathway scores to cluster cells and compute UMAP or other similar projections. We apply our method to COVID-19, lung adenocarcinoma and glioma data sets, and demonstrate its utility. SiPSiC analysis results are consistent with findings reported in previous studies in many cases, but SiPSiC also reveals the differential activity of novel pathways, enabling us to suggest new mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of these diseases and demonstrating SiPSiC's high accuracy and sensitivity in detecting biological function and traits. In addition, we demonstrate how it can be used to better classify cells based on activity of biological pathways instead of single genes and its ability to overcome patient-specific artifacts.

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COVID-19Lung NeoplasmsSingle-Cell AnalysisAdenocarcinoma of LungCluster AnalysisGene Expression ProfilingGliomaHumansSARS-CoV-2Sequence Analysis, RNA

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PMID38981682
PMCPMC11293543

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