Ziyi Li1, Zhenxing Guo1, Ying Cheng2, Peng Jin3, Hao Wu1. 1. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. 2. Institute of Biomedical Research, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. 3. Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Abstract
MOTIVATION: In the analysis of high-throughput omics data from tissue samples, estimating and accounting for cell composition have been recognized as important steps. High cost, intensive labor requirements and technical limitations hinder the cell composition quantification using cell-sorting or single-cell technologies. Computational methods for cell composition estimation are available, but they are either limited by the availability of a reference panel or suffer from low accuracy. RESULTS: We introduce TOols for the Analysis of heterogeneouS Tissues TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P, two partial reference-free algorithms for estimating cell composition of heterogeneous tissues based on their gene expression profiles. TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P incorporate additional biological information, including cell-type-specific markers and prior knowledge of compositions, in the estimation procedure. Extensive simulation studies and real data analyses demonstrate that the proposed methods provide more accurate and robust cell composition estimation than existing methods. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The proposed methods TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P are implemented as part of the R/Bioconductor package TOAST at https://bioconductor.org/packages/TOAST. CONTACT: ziyi.li@emory.edu or hao.wu@emory.edu. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
MOTIVATION: In the analysis of high-throughput omics data from tissue samples, estimating and accounting for cell composition have been recognized as important steps. High cost, intensive labor requirements and technical limitations hinder the cell composition quantification using cell-sorting or single-cell technologies. Computational methods for cell composition estimation are available, but they are either limited by the availability of a reference panel or suffer from low accuracy. RESULTS: We introduce TOols for the Analysis of heterogeneouS Tissues TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P, two partial reference-free algorithms for estimating cell composition of heterogeneous tissues based on their gene expression profiles. TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P incorporate additional biological information, including cell-type-specific markers and prior knowledge of compositions, in the estimation procedure. Extensive simulation studies and real data analyses demonstrate that the proposed methods provide more accurate and robust cell composition estimation than existing methods. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The proposed methods TOAST/-P and TOAST/+P are implemented as part of the R/Bioconductor package TOAST at https://bioconductor.org/packages/TOAST. CONTACT: ziyi.li@emory.edu or hao.wu@emory.edu. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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