About Coupled Clustering
CoupledClustering is a statistical model for gene regulation from paired expression and chromatin accessibility data.
Zhana Duren, Xi Chen, Mahdi Zamanighomi, Wanwen Zeng, Ansuman T Satpathy,Howard Y. Chang, Yong Wang, and Wing Hung Wong (2018), Integrative analysis of single cell genomics data by coupled nonnegative matrix factorizations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 July 9;111(44):15675-80
When different types of functional genomics data are generated on single cells from different samples of cells from the same heterogeneous population, the clustering of cells in the different samples should be coupled. We formulate this “coupled clustering” problem as an optimization problem, and propose the method of coupled nonnegative matrix factorizations (coupled NMF) for its solution. The method is illustrated by the integrative analysis of single cell RNA-seq and single cell ATAC-seq data.
Biological samples of interest in clinical or experimental studies are often heterogeneous mixtures of different types of cells. Suppose we have two single cell data sets, each providing information on a different feature of the cellular state, and each is generated on a different sample from this mixture. Then, the clustering of cells in the two cell samples should be coupled as both clustering are reflecting the underlying cell types in the same mixture. This “coupled clustering” problem is a new problem not covered by existing clustering methods. In this paper we develop an approach for its solution based the coupling of two nonnegative matrix factorizations. The method should be useful for integrative single cell genomics analysis tasks such as the joint analysis of single cell RNA-seq and single cell ATAC-seq data.
User Guide
Using CoupledNMF software:
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: Python tool for CoupledNMF
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Input: expression of genes (Exp) and chromatin accessibility of regions (Opn) on your interested single cell sample.
Output: clusters of gene expression and clusters of chromatin accessibility.
Downloads
Release: Software Download
Update History
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2018-03-30: updates include:
- Initial version of CoupledNMF
- Software of CoupledNMF
- Software of CoupledNMF 2.0
Contact
Any correpondences regarding the Coupled Clustering should be directed to Zhana Duren(zduren@stanford.edu) and Prof. Wing Hung Wong (whwong@stanford.edu).
The Coupled Clustering NMF model was developed by researchers at Stanford University in the Wong Lab.
The Wong Lab and its research contribute to Stanford's Bio-X Initiative, which is aimed to bring clinicians, biomedical, and life science researchers
together with engineers, physicists, and computational scientists to tackle the complexity of the body in health and disease.