scAWMV

scAWMV integrates parallel single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell ATAC sequencing (scATAC-seq) data using adaptively weighted multi-view learning to produce unified low-dimensional representations that mitigate sparsity and noise for joint transcriptomic and epigenomic analysis.


Key Features:

  • Adaptive Weighting: Employs an adaptive weighting mechanism to account for varying importance of scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq modalities during integration.
  • Multi-View Learning: Leverages multi-view learning to capture both distinct characteristics and shared biological connections between transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles.
  • Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction: Generates biologically meaningful low-dimensional representations of both scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data via unsupervised learning.
  • Robustness to Sparsity and Noise: Specifically addresses the inherent sparsity and noise of single-cell multi-omics datasets to improve integration reliability.

Scientific Applications:

  • Cellular Heterogeneity Analysis: Enables joint analysis of scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq from the same cells to reveal detailed cellular heterogeneity at single-cell resolution.
  • Multi-Omics Data Integration: Facilitates integration of transcriptomic and epigenomic data to support studies of gene regulation and cellular function.

Methodology:

Adaptive weighting is used to assess modality importance, multi-view learning captures distinct and shared signals, and unsupervised dimensionality reduction produces unified low-dimensional representations from scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data.

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Details

License:
Not licensed
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
command-line tool
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
MATLAB
Added:
1/26/2023
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Zeng P, Ma Y, Lin Z. scAWMV: an adaptively weighted multi-view learning framework for the integrative analysis of parallel scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data. Bioinformatics. 2022;39(1). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac739. PMID:36383176. PMCID:PMC9805575.

PMID: 36383176
PMCID: PMC9805575
Funding: - Chinese University of Hong Kong: 4930181 - Hong Kong Research Grant Council: ECS 24301419, GRF 14301120