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This study introduces SCTree, a statistical framework to analyze cell differentiation pathways from single-cell data. SCTree robustly detects linear and branching structures, offering a unified assessment of hidden cellular progression.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Cell fate determination involves continuous diversification along hierarchical paths.
  • Single-cell technologies enable the study of cell progression as a structured continuous tree (SCTree).
  • Existing computational methods often rely on assumptions and lack robust statistical frameworks for assessing intrinsic structures in high-dimensional single-cell data, facing challenges from noise and cell-to-cell variation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an adaptive statistical framework, SCTree, for testing the intrinsic structure of high-dimensional single-cell datasets.
  • To provide a unified statistical assessment of the significance of hidden structures in single-cell data, including linear and branching events.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an adaptive statistical framework (SCTree) utilizing tools from metric geometry and random matrix theory.
  • Extended the Gromov-Farris transform and employed the semicircular law to frame the continuous tree structure testing as a signal matrix detection problem.
  • Evaluated the SCTree test's power and robustness using simulated and real single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets.

Main Results:

  • The SCTree test demonstrates high power when the signal-to-noise ratio exceeds a moderate threshold.
  • SCTree robustly detects linear, single, and multiple branching events in both simulated and real scRNA-seq data.
  • The framework provides a unified statistical assessment for the significance of hidden structures within single-cell data.

Conclusions:

  • SCTree offers a novel statistical approach to rigorously test and identify underlying structures in cell differentiation trajectories.
  • The framework effectively addresses the challenges posed by noise and variability in single-cell data for structure detection.
  • SCTree software is publicly available, facilitating its application in analyzing complex single-cell datasets.