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NeuroVelo: interpretable learning of cellular dynamics from single-cell transcriptomic data

Kouadri Boudjelthia, I.; Milite, S.; El Kazwini, N.; Fernandez-Mateos, J.; Valeri, N.; Huang, Y.; Sottoriva, A.; Sanguinetti, G.

2024-02-13 bioinformatics
10.1101/2023.11.17.567500 bioRxiv
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Reconstructing temporal cellular dynamics from static single-cell transcriptomics remains a major challenge. Methods based on RNA velocity are useful, but interpreting their results to learn new biology remains difficult, and their predictive power is limited. Here we propose NeuroVelo, a method that couples learning of an optimal linear projection with non-linear Neural Ordinary Differential Equations. Unlike current methods, it uses dynamical systems theory to model biological processes over time, hence NeuroVelo can identify gene interactions that drive the observed temporal dynamics of gene expression. We benchmark NeuroVelo against several state-of-the-art methods using single-cell datasets, demonstrating that NeuroVelo simultaneously reconstructs correct cell-type transitions and identifies gene regulatory networks that drive cell fate directly from the data.

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