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TSvelo: Comprehensive RNA velocity inference by jointly modeling Transcription and Splicing

Li, J.; Wang, Z.; Shen, H.-B.; Yuan, Y.

2024-12-24 bioinformatics
10.1101/2024.12.24.630058 bioRxiv
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RNA velocity approaches fit gene dynamics and infer cell fate by modeling the splicing process using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. However, due to short time scale of splicing, high noise and large complexity of data, existing RNA velocity methods often fail to precisely capture the complex velocity dynamics for individual gene and single cell, which makes its downstream analysis less reliable and less robust. We propose TSvelo, a comprehensive RNA velocity mathematics framework that can model the cascade of gene regulation, Transcription and Splicing using highly interpretable neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). TSvelo can precisely capture the transcription-unspliced-spliced 3D dynamics of all genes simultaneously, infer unified latent time shared by genes within single cell, detect key gene regulatory relations and be applied to multi-lineage datasets. Experiments on six scRNA-seq datasets, including two multi-lineage datasets, demonstrate TSvelos superiority.

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