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A General Single-Cell Analysis Framework via Conditional Diffusion Generative Models

Tang, W.; Liu, R.; Wen, H.; Dai, X.; Ding, J.; Li, H.; Fan, W.; Xie, Y.; Tang, J.

2023-10-17 bioinformatics
10.1101/2023.10.13.562243 bioRxiv
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWThe fast-growing single-cell analysis community extends the horizon of quantitative analysis to numerous computational tasks. While the tasks hold vastly different targets from each other, existing works typically design specific model frameworks according to the downstream objectives. In this work, we propose a general single-cell analysis framework by unifying common computational tasks as posterior estimation problems. In light of conditional diffusion generative models, we introduce scDiff through the proposed framework and study different conditioning strategies. With data-specific conditions, scDiff achieves competitive performance against state-of-the-art in various benchmarking tasks. In addition, we illustrate the flexibility of scDiff by incorporating prior information through large language models and graph neural networks. Additional few-shot and zero-shot experiments prove the effectiveness of the prior conditioner on scDiff. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/OmicsML/scDiff.

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