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Optimal transport improves cell–cell similarity inference in single-cell omics data

Geert-Jan Huizing
Gabriel Peyré
Laura Cantini

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Abstract Motivation High-throughput single-cell molecular profiling is revolutionizing biology and medicine by unveiling the diversity of cell types and states contributing to development and disease. The identification and characterization of cellular heterogeneity are typically achieved through unsupervised clustering, which crucially relies on a similarity metric. Results We here propose the use of Optimal Transport (OT) as a cell–cell similarity metric for single-cell omics data. OT defines distances to compare high-dimensional data represented as probability distributions. To speed up computations and cope with the high dimensionality of single-cell data, we consider the entropic regularization of the classical OT distance. We then extensively benchmark OT against state-of-the-art metrics over 13 independent datasets, including simulated, scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq and single-cell DNA methylation data. First, we test the ability of the metrics to detect the similarity between cells belonging to the same groups (e.g. cell types, cell lines of origin). Then, we apply unsupervised clustering and test the quality of the resulting clusters. OT is found to improve cell–cell similarity inference and cell clustering in all simulated and real scRNA-seq data, as well as in scATAC-seq and single-cell DNA methylation data. Availability and implementation All our analyses are reproducible through the OT-scOmics Jupyter notebook available at https://github.com/ComputationalSystemsBiology/OT-scOmics. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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hal-03623386 , version 1 (29-03-2022)

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Geert-Jan Huizing, Gabriel Peyré, Laura Cantini. Optimal transport improves cell–cell similarity inference in single-cell omics data. Bioinformatics, 2022, ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/btac084⟩. ⟨hal-03623386⟩
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