Bioinformatics • Vol 40 • No 2
Phenotype prediction from single-cell RNA-seq data using attention-based neural networks
February 2024 • Yuzhen Mao, Yen‐Yi Lin, Nelson K.Y. Wong, Stanislav Volik, Funda Sar, Colin C. Collins, Martin Ester
Abstract Motivation A patient’s disease phenotype can be driven and determined by specific groups of cells whose marker genes are either unknown or can only be detected at late-stage using conventional bulk assays such as RNA-Seq technology. Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enable gene expression profiling in cell-level resolution, and therefore have the potential to identify those cells driving the disease phenotype even while the number of these cells is small. However, most existing met…