FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data

Background One goal of expression data analysis is to discover the biological significance or function of genes that are differentially expressed. Gene Set Enrichment (GSE) analysis is one of the main tools for function mining that has been widely used. However, every gene expressed in a cell is val...

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Autores principales: Yunqing Liu, Na Lu, Changwei Bi, Tingyu Han, Guo Zhuojun, Yunchi Zhu, Yixin Li, Chunpeng He, Zuhong Lu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6903d3e9920b448798549a3635d4c60d2021-12-02T15:05:18ZFEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data10.7717/peerj.125702167-8359https://doaj.org/article/6903d3e9920b448798549a3635d4c60d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://peerj.com/articles/12570.pdfhttps://peerj.com/articles/12570/https://doaj.org/toc/2167-8359Background One goal of expression data analysis is to discover the biological significance or function of genes that are differentially expressed. Gene Set Enrichment (GSE) analysis is one of the main tools for function mining that has been widely used. However, every gene expressed in a cell is valuable information for GSE for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-SEQ) data and not should be discarded. Methods We developed the functional expression matrix (FEM) algorithm to utilize the information from all expressed genes. The algorithm converts the gene expression matrix (GEM) into a FEM. The FEM algorithm can provide insight on the biological significance of a single cell. It can also integrate with GEM for downstream analysis. Results We found that FEM performed well with cell clustering and cell-type specific function annotation in three datasets (peripheral blood mononuclear cells, human liver, and human pancreas).Yunqing LiuNa LuChangwei BiTingyu HanGuo ZhuojunYunchi ZhuYixin LiChunpeng HeZuhong LuPeerJ Inc.articleSingle-cell RNA sequencingGene set enrichment analysisFunctional expression matrixMedicineRENPeerJ, Vol 9, p e12570 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Single-cell RNA sequencing
Gene set enrichment analysis
Functional expression matrix
Medicine
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spellingShingle Single-cell RNA sequencing
Gene set enrichment analysis
Functional expression matrix
Medicine
R
Yunqing Liu
Na Lu
Changwei Bi
Tingyu Han
Guo Zhuojun
Yunchi Zhu
Yixin Li
Chunpeng He
Zuhong Lu
FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
description Background One goal of expression data analysis is to discover the biological significance or function of genes that are differentially expressed. Gene Set Enrichment (GSE) analysis is one of the main tools for function mining that has been widely used. However, every gene expressed in a cell is valuable information for GSE for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-SEQ) data and not should be discarded. Methods We developed the functional expression matrix (FEM) algorithm to utilize the information from all expressed genes. The algorithm converts the gene expression matrix (GEM) into a FEM. The FEM algorithm can provide insight on the biological significance of a single cell. It can also integrate with GEM for downstream analysis. Results We found that FEM performed well with cell clustering and cell-type specific function annotation in three datasets (peripheral blood mononuclear cells, human liver, and human pancreas).
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author Yunqing Liu
Na Lu
Changwei Bi
Tingyu Han
Guo Zhuojun
Yunchi Zhu
Yixin Li
Chunpeng He
Zuhong Lu
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Na Lu
Changwei Bi
Tingyu Han
Guo Zhuojun
Yunchi Zhu
Yixin Li
Chunpeng He
Zuhong Lu
author_sort Yunqing Liu
title FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
title_short FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
title_full FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
title_fullStr FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
title_full_unstemmed FEM: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell RNA sequencing data
title_sort fem: mining biological meaning from cell level in single-cell rna sequencing data
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publishDate 2021
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