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Datasets and Benchmarks: Dataset and Benchmark Poster Session 4

A sandbox for prediction and integration of DNA, RNA, and proteins in single cells

Malte Luecken · Daniel Burkhardt · Robrecht Cannoodt · Christopher Lance · Aditi Agrawal · Hananeh Aliee · Ann Chen · Louise Deconinck · Angela Detweiler · Alejandro Granados · Shelly Huynh · Laura Isacco · Yang Kim · Dominik Klein · BONY DE KUMAR · Sunil Kuppasani · Heiko Lickert · Aaron McGeever · Honey Mekonen · Joaquin Melgarejo · Maurizio Morri · Michaela Müller · Norma Neff · Sheryl Paul · Bastian Rieck · Kaylie Schneider · Scott Steelman · Michael Sterr · Daniel Treacy · Alexander Tong · Alexandra-Chloe Villani · Guilin Wang · Jia Yan · Ce Zhang · Angela Pisco · Smita Krishnaswamy · Fabian Theis · Jonathan M Bloom


Abstract:

The last decade has witnessed a technological arms race to encode the molecular states of cells into DNA libraries, turning DNA sequencers into scalable single-cell microscopes. Single-cell measurement of chromatin accessibility (DNA), gene expression (RNA), and proteins has revealed rich cellular diversity across tissues, organisms, and disease states. However, single-cell data poses a unique set of challenges. A dataset may comprise millions of cells with tens of thousands of sparse features. Identifying biologically relevant signals from the background sources of technical noise requires innovation in predictive and representational learning. Furthermore, unlike in machine vision or natural language processing, biological ground truth is limited. Here we leverage recent advances in multi-modal single-cell technologies which, by simultaneously measuring two layers of cellular processing in each cell, provide ground truth analogous to language translation. We define three key tasks to predict one modality from another and learn integrated representations of cellular state. We also generate a novel dataset of the human bone marrow specifically designed for benchmarking studies. The dataset and tasks are accessible through an open-source framework that facilitates centralized evaluation of community-submitted methods.

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