Article Dans Une Revue PLoS Computational Biology Année : 2024

A novel batch-effect correction method for scRNA-seq data based on Adversarial Information Factorization

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology produces an unprecedented resolution at the level of a unique cell, raising great hopes in medicine. Nevertheless, scRNA-seq data suffer from high variations due to the experimental conditions, called batch effects, preventing any aggregated downstream analysis. Adversarial Information Factorization provides a robust batch-effect correction method that does not rely on prior knowledge of the cell types nor a specific normalization strategy while being adapted to any downstream analysis task. It compares to and even outperforms state-of-the-art methods in several scenarios: low signal-to-noise ratio, batch-specific cell types with few cells, and a multi-batches dataset with imbalanced batches and batch-specific cell types. Moreover, it best preserves the relative gene expression between cell types, yielding superior differential expression analysis results. Finally, in a more complex setting of a Leukemia cohort, our method preserved most of the underlying biological information for each patient while aligning the batches, improving the clustering metrics in the aggregated dataset.

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hal-05236067 , version 1 (02-09-2025)

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Lily Monnier, Paul-Henry Cournède. A novel batch-effect correction method for scRNA-seq data based on Adversarial Information Factorization. PLoS Computational Biology, 2024, 20 (2), pp.e1011880. ⟨10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011880⟩. ⟨hal-05236067⟩
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