RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Network inference and hypotheses-generation from single-cell transcriptomic data using multivariate information measures
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 082099
DO 10.1101/082099
A1 Thalia E Chan
A1 Michael PH Stumpf
A1 Ann C Babtie
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/20/082099.abstract
AB Developmental processes are carefully orchestrated. A multi-cellular organism can only emerge from a single fertilised egg cell because gene expression is robustly regulated in space and time by networks of transcriptional regulators. Single cell transcriptomic data allow us to probe and map these networks in unprecedented detail. Here we develop an information theoretical framework to infer candidate gene (co-)regulatory networks and distill mechanistic hypotheses from single cell data. Information theory offers clear advantages for such data, where cell-to-cell variability is all pervasive and sample sizes are large. Higher-order information theoretical functionals capture interactions and dependencies between genes reliably in both in silico and real data.