HiDeF: identifying persistent structures in multiscale ‘omics data

  1. Fan Zheng
  2. She Zhang
  3. Christopher Churas
  4. Dexter Pratt
  5. Ivet Bahar
  6. Trey Ideker

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Abstract

In any ‘omics study, the scale of analysis can dramatically affect the outcome. For instance, when clustering single-cell transcriptomes, is the analysis tuned to discover broad or specific cell types? Likewise, protein communities revealed from protein networks can vary widely in sizes depending on the method. Here, we use the concept of persistent homology, drawn from mathematical topology, to identify robust structures in data at all scales simultaneously. Application to mouse single-cell transcriptomes significantly expands the catalog of identified cell types, while analysis of SARS-COV-2 protein interactions suggests hijacking of WNT. The method, HiDeF, is available via Python and Cytoscape.

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  1. Version published to 10.1186/s13059-020-02228-4
  2. Version published to 10.1101/2020.06.16.151555v3 on bioRxiv
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    To determine we use the extended Louvain algorithm implemented in the Python package louvain-igraph (http://github.com/vtraag/louvain-igraph; version 0.6.1).
    Python
    suggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)
    Conos/Walktrap uses a score based on the gain of modularity in merging two communities, whereas TooManyCells uses the modularity of each binary partition.
    Conos/Walktrap
    suggested: None
    This collection contained two versions of the STRING interaction database, with the second removing edges from text mining (labeled STRING-t versus STRING, respectively; Fig. 3).
    STRING
    suggested: (STRING, RRID:SCR_005223)
    This list was expanded to include additional human proteins connected to two or more of the 332 virus-interacting human proteins in the new BioPlex 3.0 network [36].
    BioPlex
    suggested: (BioPlex, RRID:SCR_016144)
    HiDeF was applied to this network with the same parameter settings as for other protein-protein interaction networks (see previous Methods sections), and enrichment analysis was performed via g:Profiler [54] (Fig. 3f,g).
    g:Profiler
    suggested: (G:Profiler, RRID:SCR_006809)

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