Trajectory inference across multiple conditions with condiments

Hector Roux de Bézieux, Koen Van den Berge, Kelly Street () and Sandrine Dudoit ()
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Hector Roux de Bézieux: University of California
Koen Van den Berge: University of California
Kelly Street: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Sandrine Dudoit: University of California

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Abstract In single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq), gene expression is assessed individually for each cell, allowing the investigation of developmental processes, such as embryogenesis and cellular differentiation and regeneration, at unprecedented resolution. In such dynamic biological systems, cellular states form a continuum, e.g., for the differentiation of stem cells into mature cell types. This process is often represented via a trajectory in a reduced-dimensional representation of the scRNA-Seq dataset. While many methods have been suggested for trajectory inference, it is often unclear how to handle multiple biological groups or conditions, e.g., inferring and comparing the differentiation trajectories of wild-type and knock-out stem cell populations. In this manuscript, we present condiments, a method for the inference and downstream interpretation of cell trajectories across multiple conditions. Our framework allows the interpretation of differences between conditions at the trajectory, cell population, and gene expression levels. We start by integrating datasets from multiple conditions into a single trajectory. By comparing the cell’s conditions along the trajectory’s path, we can detect large-scale changes, indicative of differential progression or fate selection. We also demonstrate how to detect subtler changes by finding genes that exhibit different behaviors between these conditions along a differentiation path.

Date: 2024
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