Genome Biology (Dec 2021)

Cobolt: integrative analysis of multimodal single-cell sequencing data

  • Boying Gong,
  • Yun Zhou,
  • Elizabeth Purdom

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02556-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Abstract A growing number of single-cell sequencing platforms enable joint profiling of multiple omics from the same cells. We present Cobolt, a novel method that not only allows for analyzing the data from joint-modality platforms, but provides a coherent framework for the integration of multiple datasets measured on different modalities. We demonstrate its performance on multi-modality data of gene expression and chromatin accessibility and illustrate the integration abilities of Cobolt by jointly analyzing this multi-modality data with single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq datasets.

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