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Area of Science:

  • Genomics
  • Computational Biology
  • Epigenetics

Background:

  • Single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing (scCAS) offers single-cell resolution epigenomic insights.
  • Existing scCAS data simulators lack credible ground-truth labels for method validation.
  • There is a need for advanced simulation frameworks to evaluate computational tools for scCAS data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop simCAS, an embedding-based simulator for generating high-fidelity scCAS data.
  • To provide a flexible framework for simulating diverse cell populations and differentiation trajectories.
  • To enable the generation of synthetic scCAS data with user-defined batch effects and chromatin region interactions.

Main Methods:

  • simCAS utilizes cell- and peak-wise embeddings to generate synthetic scCAS data.
  • The simulator incorporates user-defined cell populations, differentiation trajectories, and batch effects.
  • simCAS can encode specific interactions between chromatin regions within the synthetic data.

Main Results:

  • simCAS generates synthetic scCAS data that closely resembles real data.
  • The simulator successfully creates cells with varying states and user-defined populations/trajectories.
  • simCAS facilitates benchmarking of downstream analysis tasks, including clustering, trajectory inference, data integration, and cis-regulatory interaction inference.

Conclusions:

  • simCAS is a powerful and flexible tool for simulating scCAS data.
  • The simulator provides essential ground-truth labels for evaluating computational methods.
  • simCAS is expected to advance the development and validation of epigenomic analysis tools.