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Privacy-preserving integration of multiple institutional data for single-cell type identification with scPrivacy.

ABSTRACT: The rapid accumulation of large-scale single-cell RNA-seq datasets from multiple institutions presents remarkable opportunities for automatically cell annotations through integrative analyses. However, the privacy issue has existed but being ignored, since we are limited to access and utilize all the reference datasets distributed in different institutions globally due to the prohibited data transmission across institutions by data regulation laws. To this end, we present scPrivacy, which is the first and generalized automatically single-cell type identification prototype to facilitate single cell annotations in a data privacy-preserving collaboration manner. We evaluated scPrivacy on a comprehensive set of publicly available benchmark datasets for single-cell type identification to stimulate the scenario that the reference datasets are rapidly generated and distributed in multiple institutions, while they are prohibited to be integrated directly or exposed to each other due to the data privacy regulations, demonstrating its effectiveness, time efficiency and robustness for privacy-preserving integration of multiple institutional datasets in single cell annotations.

SUBMITTER: Chen S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9771767 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Privacy-preserving integration of multiple institutional data for single-cell type identification with scPrivacy.

Chen Shaoqi S Duan Bin B Zhu Chenyu C Tang Chen C Wang Shuguang S Gao Yicheng Y Fu Shaliu S Fan Lixin L Yang Qiang Q Liu Qi Q

Science China. Life sciences 20221215 5

The rapid accumulation of large-scale single-cell RNA-seq datasets from multiple institutions presents remarkable opportunities for automatically cell annotations through integrative analyses. However, the privacy issue has existed but being ignored, since we are limited to access and utilize all the reference datasets distributed in different institutions globally due to the prohibited data transmission across institutions by data regulation laws. To this end, we present scPrivacy, which is the ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundBig data useful for epidemiological research can be obtained by integrating data corresponding to individuals between databases managed by different institutions. Privacy information must be protected while performing efficient, high-level data matching.ObjectivePrivacy-preserving distributed data integration (PDDI) enables data matching between multiple databases without moving privacy information; however, its actual implementation requires matching security, accuracy, and performance. Moreover, identifying the optimal data item in the absence of a unique matching key is necessary. We aimed to conduct a basic matching experiment using a model to assess the accuracy of cancer screening.MethodsTo experiment with actual data, we created a data set mimicking the cancer screening and registration data in Japan and conducted a matching experiment using a PDDI system between geographically distant institutions. Errors similar to those found empirically in data sets recorded in Japanese were artificially introduced into the data set. The matching-key error rate of the data common to both data sets was set sufficiently higher than expected in the actual database: 85.0% and 59.0% for the data simulating colorectal and breast cancers, respectively. Various combinations of name, gender, date of birth, and address were used for the matching key. To evaluate the matching accuracy, the matching sensitivity and specificity were calculated based on the number of cancer-screening data points, and the effect of matching accuracy on the sensitivity and specificity of cancer screening was estimated based on the obtained values. To evaluate the performance, we measured central processing unit use, memory use, and network traffic.ResultsFor combinations with a specificity ≥99% and high sensitivity, the date of birth and first name were used in the data simulating colorectal cancer, and the matching sensitivity and specificity were 55.00% and 99.85%, respectively. In the data simulating breast cancer, the date of birth and family name were used, and the matching sensitivity and specificity were 88.71% and 99.98%, respectively. Assuming the sensitivity and specificity of cancer screening at 90%, the apparent values decreased to 74.90% and 89.93%, respectively. A trial calculation was performed using a combination with the same data set and 100% specificity. When the matching sensitivity was 82.26%, the apparent screening sensitivity was maintained at 90%, and the screening specificity decreased to 89.89%. For 214 data points, the execution time was 82 minutes and 26 seconds without parallelization and 11 minutes and 38 seconds with parallelization; 19.33% of the calculation time was for the data-holding institutions. Memory use was 3.4 GB for the PDDI server and 2.7 GB for the data-holding institutions.ConclusionsWe demonstrated the rudimentary feasibility of introducing a PDDI system for cancer-screening accuracy assessment. We plan to conduct matching experiments based on actual data and compare them with the existing methods.

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Privacy-preserving integration of multiple institutional data for single-cell type identification with scPrivacy.

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Privacy-preserving integration of multiple institutional data for single-cell type identification with scPrivacy.

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