Comparison and evaluation of statistical error models for scRNA-seq.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data is driven by multiple sources, including biological variation in cellular state as well as technical variation introduced during experimental processing. Deconvolving these effects is a key challenge for preprocessing workflows. Recent work has demonstrated the importance and utility of count models for scRNA-seq analysis, but there is a lack of consensus on which statistical distributions and parameter settings are appropriate.

Results

Here, we analyze 59 scRNA-seq datasets that span a wide range of technologies, systems, and sequencing depths in order to evaluate the performance of different error models. We find that while a Poisson error model appears appropriate for sparse datasets, we observe clear eviden

SUBMITTER: Choudhary S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8764781 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature