1. A unified model-based framework for doublet or multiplet detection in single-cell multiomics data
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Haoran Hu, Xinjun Wang, Site Feng, Zhongli Xu, Jing Liu, Elisa Heidrich-O’Hare, Yanshuo Chen, Molin Yue, Lang Zeng, Ziqi Rong, Tianmeng Chen, Timothy Billiar, Ying Ding, Heng Huang, Richard H. Duerr, and Wei Chen
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Abstract Droplet-based single-cell sequencing techniques rely on the fundamental assumption that each droplet encapsulates a single cell, enabling individual cell omics profiling. However, the inevitable issue of multiplets, where two or more cells are encapsulated within a single droplet, can lead to spurious cell type annotations and obscure true biological findings. The issue of multiplets is exacerbated in single-cell multiomics settings, where integrating cross-modality information for clustering can inadvertently promote the aggregation of multiplet clusters and increase the risk of erroneous cell type annotations. Here, we propose a compound Poisson model-based framework for multiplet detection in single-cell multiomics data. Leveraging experimental cell hashing results as the ground truth for multiplet status, we conducted trimodal DOGMA-seq experiments and generated 17 benchmarking datasets from two tissues, involving a total of 280,123 droplets. We demonstrated that the proposed method is an essential tool for integrating cross-modality multiplet signals, effectively eliminating multiplet clusters in single-cell multiomics data—a task at which the benchmarked single-omics methods proved inadequate.
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- 2024
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