Data denoising with transfer learning in single-cell transcriptomics.

Wang, Jingshu; Agarwal, Divyansh; Huang, Mo; Hu, Gang; Zhou, Zilu; Ye, Chengzhong; Zhang, Nancy R · Nat Methods · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data are noisy and sparse. Here, we show that transfer learning across datasets remarkably improves data quality. By coupling a deep autoencoder with a Bayesian model, SAVER-X extracts transferable gene-gene relationships across data from different labs, varying conditions and divergent species, to denoise new target datasets.

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