Alevin-fry unlocks rapid, accurate and memory-frugal quantification of single-cell RNA-seq data.

IF: 47.990

Cited by: 12

Abstract

The rapid growth of high-throughput single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq) technologies has produced a wealth of data over the past few years. The size, volume and distinctive characteristics of these data necessitate the development of new computational methods to accurately and efficiently quantify sc/snRNA-seq data into count matrices that constitute the input to downstream analyses. We introduce the alevin-fry framework for quantifying sc/snRNA-seq data. In addition to being faster and more memory frugal than other accurate quantification approaches, alevin-fry ameliorates the memory scalability and false-positive expression issues that are exhibited by other lightweight tools. We demonstrate how alevin-fry can be effectively used to quantify sc/snRNA-seq data, and also how the spliced and unspliced molecule quantification required as input for RNA velocity analyses can be seamlessly extracted from the same preprocessed data used to generate normal gene expression count matrices.

Keywords

Gene Expression

Seurat

MeSH terms

Gene Expression Profiling

RNA, Small Nuclear

RNA-Seq

Sequence Analysis, RNA

Single-Cell Analysis

Software

Authors

He, Dongze

Zakeri, Mohsen

Sarkar, Hirak

Soneson, Charlotte

Srivastava, Avi

Patro, Rob

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