A cluster robustness score for identifying cell subpopulations in single cell gene expression datasets from heterogeneous tissues and tumors

Bioinformatics
Itamar KanterTomer Kalisky

Abstract

A major aim of single cell biology is to identify important cell types such as stem cells in heterogeneous tissues and tumors. This is typically done by isolating hundreds of individual cells and measuring expression levels of multiple genes simultaneously from each cell. Then, clustering algorithms are used to group together similar single-cell expression profiles into clusters, each representing a distinct cell type. However, many of these clusters result from overfitting, meaning that rather than representing biologically meaningful cell types, they describe the intrinsic 'noise' in gene expression levels due to limitations in experimental precision or the intrinsic randomness of biochemical cellular processes. Consequentially, these non-meaningful clusters are most sensitive to noise: a slight shift in gene expression levels due to a repeated measurement will rearrange the grouping of data points such that these clusters break up. To identify the biologically meaningful clusters we propose a 'cluster robustness score': We add increasing amounts of noise (zero mean and increasing variance) and check which clusters are most robust in the sense that they do not mix with their neighbors up to high levels of noise. We show that ...Continue Reading

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