BASiCS workflow: a step-by-step analysis of expression variability using single cell RNA sequencing data
Alan O'Callaghan, Nils Eling, John C. Marioni, Catalina A. Vallejos, Michel S Naslavsky, Alan O'Callaghan, Andrew McDavid, Alan O'Callaghan, Oliver M. Crook, Alan O'Callaghan
TL;DR
This paper introduces a computational workflow using the BASiCS package to analyze gene expression variability in single-cell RNA sequencing data.
Contribution
The novel contribution is a step-by-step workflow integrating BASiCS for robust quantification of expression variability while accounting for technical noise.
Findings
BASiCS identifies highly variable and lowly variable genes within a homogeneous cell population.
The workflow includes quality control and data exploration using scater and scran packages.
A Docker image ensures reproducibility of the results.
Abstract
Cell-to-cell gene expression variability is an inherent feature of complex biological systems, such as immunity and development. Single-cell RNA sequencing is a powerful tool to quantify this heterogeneity, but it is prone to strong technical noise. In this article, we describe a step-by-step computational workflow that uses the BASiCS Bioconductor package to robustly quantify expression variability within and between known groups of cells (such as experimental conditions or cell types). BASiCS uses an integrated framework for data normalisation, technical noise quantification and downstream analyses, propagating statistical uncertainty across these steps. Within a single seemingly homogeneous cell population, BASiCS can identify highly variable genes that exhibit strong heterogeneity as well as lowly variable genes with stable expression. BASiCS also uses a probabilistic decision rule…
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TopicsSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics · Gene Regulatory Network Analysis · Cell Image Analysis Techniques