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SUBMITTER: Li X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214470 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Xiangjie X Wang Kui K Lyu Yafei Y Pan Huize H Zhang Jingxiao J Stambolian Dwight D Susztak Katalin K Reilly Muredach P MP Hu Gang G Li Mingyao M
Nature communications 20200511 1
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can characterize cell types and states through unsupervised clustering, but the ever increasing number of cells and batch effect impose computational challenges. We present DESC, an unsupervised deep embedding algorithm that clusters scRNA-seq data by iteratively optimizing a clustering objective function. Through iterative self-learning, DESC gradually removes batch effects, as long as technical differences across batches are smaller than true biological v ...[more]