Translator: A Trans fer L earning Approach to Facilitate Single-Cell AT AC-Seq Data Analysis fr o m R eference Dataset.

Journal of Computational Biology(2022)

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Recent advances in single-cell sequencing assay for transposase-accessible chromatin (scATAC-seq) have allowed simultaneous epigenetic profiling over thousands of individual cells to dissect the cellular heterogeneity and elucidate regulatory mechanisms at the finest possible resolution. However, scATAC-seq is challenging to model computationally due to the ultra-high dimensionality, low signal-to-noise ratio, complex feature interactions, and high vulnerability to various confounding factors. In this study, we present Translator, an efficient transfer learning approach to capture generalizable chromatin interactions from high-quality (HQ) reference scATAC-seq data to obtain robust cell representations in low-to-moderate quality target scATAC-seq data. We applied Translator on various simulated and real scATAC-seq datasets and demonstrated that Translator could learn more biologically meaningful cell representations than other methods by incorporating information learned from the reference data, thus facilitating various downstream analyses such as clustering and motif enrichment measurements. Moreover, Translator's block-wise deep learning framework can handle nonlinear relationships with restricted connections using fewer parameters to boost computational efficiency through Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) parallelism. Finally, we have implemented Translator as a free software package available for the community to leverage large-scale, HQ reference data to study target scATAC-seq data.
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deep generative model,single-cell ATAC-seq,transfer learning,variational autoencoder
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