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SimiC enables the inference of complex gene regulatory dynamics across cell phenotypes. Scientific Publication
Jianhao Peng # 1 , Guillermo Serrano # 2 , Ian M Traniello 3 4 , Maria E Calleja-Cervantes 2 5 , Ullas V Chembazhi 6 , Sushant Bangru 6 , Teresa Ezponda 5 7 , Juan Roberto Rodriguez-Madoz 5 7 , Auinash Kalsotra 3 6 8 , Felipe Prosper 5 7 9 , Idoia Ochoa 10 11 12 , Mikel Hernaez 13 14 15 16
Abstract
Single-cell RNA-Sequencing has the potential to provide deep biological insights by revealing complex regulatory interactions across diverse cell phenotypes at single-cell resolution.
However, current single-cell gene regulatory network inference methods produce a single regulatory network per input dataset, limiting their capability to uncover complex regulatory relationships across related cell phenotypes.
We present SimiC, a single-cell gene regulatory inference framework that overcomes this limitation by jointly inferring distinct, but related, gene regulatory dynamics per phenotype. We show that SimiC uncovers key regulatory dynamics missed by previously proposed methods across a range of systems, both model and non-model alike.
In particular, SimiC was able to uncover CAR T cell dynamics after tumor recognition and key regulatory patterns on a regenerating liver, and was able to implicate glial cells in the generation of distinct behavioral states in honeybees.
SimiC hence establishes a new approach to quantitating regulatory architectures between distinct cellular phenotypes, with far-reaching implications for systems biology.
CITATION Commun Biol. 2022 Apr 12;5(1):351. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03319-7.