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A Next-generation Tissue Microarray ngTMA Protocol for Biomarker Studies
Published on: September 23, 2014
Virtual tissue expression analysis
Jakob Simeth1,2, Paul Hüttl1, Marian Schön1
1Institute for Statistical Bioinformatics, Faculty of Informatics and Data Science, University of Regensburg, Am Biopark 9, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Motivation:
Bulk RNA expression data are widely accessible, whereas single-cell data are relatively scarce in comparison. However, single-cell data offer profound insights into the cellular composition of tissues and cell type-specific gene regulation, both of which remain hidden in bulk expression analysis.
Results:
Here, we present tissueResolver, an algorithm designed to extract single-cell information from bulk data, enabling us to attribute expression changes to individual cell types. When validated on simulated data tissueResolver outperforms competing methods. Additionally, our study demonstrates that tissueResolver reveals cell type-specific regulatory distinctions between the activated B-cell-like (ABC) and germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL).
Availability And Implementation:
R package available at https://github.com/spang-lab/tissueResolver (archived as 10.5281/zenodo.14160846).Code for reproducing the results of this article is available at https://github.com/spang-lab/tissueResolver-docs archived as swh:1:dir:faea2d4f0ded30de774b28e028299ddbdd0c4f89).
