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mfa

mfa

mfa is an R tool for modeling bifurcations in single-cell RNA-seq data. The mfa algorithm uses a Bayesian hierarchical mixture of factor analyzers and Markov-Chain Monte Carlo sampling.

Topic

RNA-seq; Gene expression

Details

  • Operation: Data handling
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface; Library
  • Language: R
  • Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows
  • License: GNU GPL v2
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 1.8.0
  • Maturity: Mature
  • Credit: The Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund, the Li Ka Shing Foundation.
  • Contact: Kieran Campbell kieranrcampbell _at_ gmail.com
  • Collection: Bioconductor

Publications

Campbell KR, Yau C "Probabilistic modeling of bifurcations in single-cell gene expression data using a Bayesian mixture of factor analyzers." Wellcome Open Res. 2017 Mar 15;2:19. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11087.1
PMID: 28503665
PMCID: PMC5428745


Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J1, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nat Methods. 2015 Feb;12(2):115-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3252
PMID: 25633503
PMCID: PMC4509590


Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JY, Zhang J. "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biol. 2004;5(10):R80. Epub 2004 Sep 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80
PMID: 15461798
PMCID: PMC545600


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