BIMSA > Seminar on Bioinformatics scGNN is a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses
scGNN is a novel graph neural network framework for single-cell RNA-Seq analyses
Organizer
Stephen S-T. Yau
Speaker
Nan Sun
Time
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue
Online
Abstract
Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-Seq) is widely used to reveal the heterogeneity and dynamics of tissues, organisms, and complex diseases, but its analyses still suffer from multiple grand challenges, including the sequencing sparsity and complex differential patterns in gene expression. We introduce the scGNN (single-cell graph neural network) to provide a hypothesis-free deep learning framework for scRNA-Seq analyses. This framework formulates and aggregates cell–cell relationships with graph neural networks and models heterogeneous gene expression patterns using a left-truncated mixture Gaussian model. scGNN integrates three iterative multi-modal autoencoders and outperforms existing tools for gene imputation and cell clustering on four benchmark scRNA-Seq datasets. In an Alzheimer’s disease study with 13,214 single nuclei from postmortem brain tissues, scGNN successfully illustrated disease-related neural development and the differential mechanism. scGNN provides an effective representation of gene expression and cell–cell relationships. It is also a powerful framework that can be applied to general scRNA-Seq analyses.
Speaker Intro
孙楠目前是北京雁栖湖应用数学研究院的博士后。她的研究方向包括生物信息学、机器学习和应用数学，在The Innovation, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, BMC Bioinformatics, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Journal of Computational Biology, Genes等期刊发表多篇论文，参与多项国家自然科学基金及北京市自然科学基金项目，主持中国博士后科学基金第78批面上资助。