Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

A guide to machine learning for biologists

JG Greener, SM Kandathil, L Moffat… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The expanding scale and inherent complexity of biological data have encouraged a growing
use of machine learning in biology to build informative and predictive models of the …

A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex

Principal manuscript editors, Analysis coordination… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Here we report the generation of a multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian
primary motor cortex as the initial product of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network …

Interpretable machine learning: Fundamental principles and 10 grand challenges

C Rudin, C Chen, Z Chen, H Huang… - Statistic …, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Interpretability in machine learning (ML) is crucial for high stakes decisions and
troubleshooting. In this work, we provide fundamental principles for interpretable ML, and …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal types in the mouse amygdala and their transcriptional response to fear conditioning

H Hochgerner, S Singh, M Tibi, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The amygdala is a brain region primarily associated with emotional response. The use of
genetic markers and single-cell transcriptomics can provide insights into behavior …

Understanding how dimension reduction tools work: an empirical approach to deciphering t-SNE, UMAP, TriMAP, and PaCMAP for data visualization

Y Wang, H Huang, C Rudin, Y Shaposhnik - Journal of Machine Learning …, 2021 - jmlr.org
Dimension reduction (DR) techniques such as t-SNE, UMAP, and TriMap have
demonstrated impressive visualization performance on many real-world datasets. One …

Molecular architecture of the develo** mouse brain

G La Manno, K Siletti, A Furlan, D Gyllborg, E Vinsland… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian brain develops through a complex interplay of spatial cues generated by
diffusible morphogens, cell–cell interactions and intrinsic genetic programs that result in …

Decoding the tumor microenvironment with spatial technologies

LA Walsh, DF Quail - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Visualization of the cellular heterogeneity and spatial architecture of the tumor
microenvironment (TME) is becoming increasingly important to understand mechanisms of …

Cigarette smoke exposure and inflammatory signaling increase the expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the respiratory tract

JC Smith, EL Sausville, V Girish, ML Yuan… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show
that cigarette smoke causes a dose-dependent upregulation of angiotensin converting …

Initialization is critical for preserving global data structure in both t-SNE and UMAP

D Kobak, GC Linderman - Nature biotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Our aim here was not to argue which algorithm, t-SNE or UMAP, is more suitable for single-
cell studies. Once informative initialization is used, the two algorithms appear to preserve the …