Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

DUBStepR is a scalable correlation-based feature selection method for accurately clustering single-cell data

  • Bobby Ranjan,
  • Wenjie Sun,
  • Jinyu Park,
  • Kunal Mishra,
  • Florian Schmidt,
  • Ronald Xie,
  • Fatemeh Alipour,
  • Vipul Singhal,
  • Ignasius Joanito,
  • Mohammad Amin Honardoost,
  • Jacy Mei Yun Yong,
  • Ee Tzun Koh,
  • Khai Pang Leong,
  • Nirmala Arul Rayan,
  • Michelle Gek Liang Lim,
  • Shyam Prabhakar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26085-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cell-type-specific genes are often strongly correlated in expression - an informative yet underexplored property of single-cell data. Here, the authors leverage gene expression correlations to develop DUBStepR, a feature selection method for accurately clustering single-cell data.