Affiliation:
1. Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Abstract
Abstract
In higher organisms, individual cells respond to signals and perturbations by epigenetic regulation or transcriptional adaptation. However, in addition to shifting the expression level of individual genes, the adaptive response of cells can also lead to shifts in the proportions of different cell types. Recent methods such as scRNA-seq allow for the interrogation of expression on the single cell level, and can quantify individual cell type clusters within complex tissue samples. In order to identify clusters showing differential composition between different biological conditions, differential proportion analysis has recently been introduced. However, bioinformatics tools for robust proportion analysis of both replicated and unreplicated single cell datasets are critically missing. In this manuscript, we present Scanpro, a modular tool for proportion analysis, seamlessly integrating into widely accepted frameworks in the Python environment. Scanpro is fast, accurate, supports datasets without replicates, and is intended to be used by bioinformatics experts and beginners alike.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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