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DCATS: differential composition analysis for complex single-cell experimental designs

Lin, X.; Chau, C.; Huang, Y.; Ho, J. W. K.

2022-03-23 bioinformatics
10.1101/2022.03.21.485232 bioRxiv
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Differential composition analysis - the identification of cell types that have statistically significantly change in abundance between multiple experimental conditions - is one of the most common tasks in single cell omic data analysis. However, it remains challenging to perform differential composition analysis in the presence of complex experimental designs and uncertainty in cell type assignment. Here, we introduce a statistical model and an open source R package, DCATS, for differential composition analysis based on a beta-binomial regression framework that addresses these challenges. Our empirical evaluation shows that DCATS consistently maintain high sensitively and specificity compared to state-of-the-art methods.

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