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Agus Salim^1,2,3,4,5, Ramyar Molania², Jianan Wang^2,6

¹Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia.

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RUV-III-NB effectively removes unwanted variation in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data for both cell embeddings and gene counts. This novel method improves downstream analyses like differential expression (DE) analysis and enhances biological signal detection.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Background:

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) normalization is challenging due to dataset-specific variations.
Existing methods often fail to address associated unwanted factors and biology, impacting downstream analyses.
Most normalization techniques only adjust cell embeddings, not gene-level counts crucial for differential expression (DE) analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce RUV-III-NB, a novel method for removing unwanted variation from scRNA-seq data.
To enable adjustment of both cell embeddings and gene-level counts.
To improve the accuracy and reliability of downstream scRNA-seq analyses.

Main Methods:

RUV-III-NB utilizes pseudo-replicates to account for potential biological associations when removing unwanted variation.
The method is applicable to both UMI (Unique Molecular Identifier) and read counts.
Adjusted counts are generated for subsequent analyses like clustering, DE, and pseudotime.

Main Results:

RUV-III-NB successfully removes library size and batch effects across diverse scRNA-seq datasets.
The method strengthens biological signals and improves the performance of DE analyses.
Results demonstrate greater concordance with independent datasets, indicating robust performance.
RUV-III-NB shows consistent performance and is insensitive to the assumed number of unwanted variation factors.

Conclusions:

RUV-III-NB offers a comprehensive solution for unwanted variation removal in scRNA-seq data.
The method enhances the quality of both cell embeddings and gene-level data for robust downstream applications.
RUV-III-NB provides a reliable and consistent approach for scRNA-seq data normalization and analysis.