Browsing by Author "Zhang, Anru"

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    ICTD: A semi-supervised cell type identification and deconvolution method for multi-omics data
    (BioRxiv, 2019) Chang, Wennan; Wan, Changlin; Lu, Xiaoyu; Tu, Szu-wei; Sun, Yifan; Zhang, Xinna; Zang, Yong; Zhang, Anru; Huang, Kun; Liu, Yunlong; Lu, Xiongbin; Cao, Sha; Zhang, Chi; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    We developed a novel deconvolution method, namely Inference of Cell Types and Deconvolution (ICTD) that addresses the fundamental issue of identifiability and robustness in current tissue data deconvolution problem. ICTD provides substantially new capabilities for omics data based characterization of a tissue microenvironment, including (1) maximizing the resolution in identifying resident cell and sub types that truly exists in a tissue, (2) identifying the most reliable marker genes for each cell type, which are tissue and data set specific, (3) handling the stability problem with co-linear cell types, (4) co-deconvoluting with available matched multi-omics data, and (5) inferring functional variations specific to one or several cell types. ICTD is empowered by (i) rigorously derived mathematical conditions of identifiable cell type and cell type specific functions in tissue transcriptomics data and (ii) a semi supervised approach to maximize the knowledge transfer of cell type and functional marker genes identified in single cell or bulk cell data in the analysis of tissue data, and (iii) a novel unsupervised approach to minimize the bias brought by training data. Application of ICTD on real and single cell simulated tissue data validated that the method has consistently good performance for tissue data coming from different species, tissue microenvironments, and experimental platforms. Other than the new capabilities, ICTD outperformed other state-of-the-art devolution methods on prediction accuracy, the resolution of identifiable cell, detection of unknown sub cell types, and assessment of cell type specific functions. The premise of ICTD also lies in characterizing cell-cell interactions and discovering cell types and prognostic markers that are predictive of clinical outcomes.
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    LTMG: a novel statistical modeling of transcriptional expression states in single-cell RNA-Seq data
    (Oxford University Press, 2019-10-10) Wan, Changlin; Chang, Wennan; Zhang, Yu; Shah, Fenil; Lu, Xiaoyu; Zang, Yong; Zhang, Anru; Cao, Sha; Fishel, Melissa L.; Ma, Qin; Zhang, Chi; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    A key challenge in modeling single-cell RNA-seq data is to capture the diversity of gene expression states regulated by different transcriptional regulatory inputs across individual cells, which is further complicated by largely observed zero and low expressions. We developed a left truncated mixture Gaussian (LTMG) model, from the kinetic relationships of the transcriptional regulatory inputs, mRNA metabolism and abundance in single cells. LTMG infers the expression multi-modalities across single cells, meanwhile, the dropouts and low expressions are treated as left truncated. We demonstrated that LTMG has significantly better goodness of fitting on an extensive number of scRNA-seq data, comparing to three other state-of-the-art models. Our biological assumption of the low non-zero expressions, rationality of the multimodality setting, and the capability of LTMG in extracting expression states specific to cell types or functions, are validated on independent experimental data sets. A differential gene expression test and a co-regulation module identification method are further developed. We experimentally validated that our differential expression test has higher sensitivity and specificity, compared with other five popular methods. The co-regulation analysis is capable of retrieving gene co-regulation modules corresponding to perturbed transcriptional regulations. A user-friendly R package with all the analysis power is available at https://github.com/zy26/LTMGSCA.