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scDenorm: a denormalization tool for integrating single-cell transcriptomics data

  • Yin Huang
  • , Anna Vathrakokoili Pournara
  • , Ying Ao
  • , Ziliang Huang
  • , Hui Zhang
  • , Yongjian Zhang
  • , Sheng Liu
  • , Alvis Brazma
  • , Irene Papatheodorou
  • , Xinlu Yang*
  • , Ming Shi*
  • , Zhichao Miao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Tongji University
  • Bioland Laboratory (Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health GuangDong Laboratory)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Guangzhou Medical College
  • Harbin Red Cross Central Hospital
  • Harbin Medical University
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease
  • School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Integrating single-cell omics data at an atlas scale enhances our understanding of cell types and disease mechanisms. However, the integration of data processed by different normalization methods can lead to biases, such as unexpected batch effects and gene expression distortion, leading to misinterpretations in downstream analysis. To address these challenges, we present scDenorm, an algorithm that reverts delta-method normalized single-cell omics data to raw counts, preserving the integrity of the original measurements and ensuring consistent data processing during integration. We evaluated scDenorm’s performance on large-scale datasets and benchmarked its impact on data integration and downstream analysis across 3 datasets.

Original languageEnglish
JournalGigaScience
Volume15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

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