提升CRISPR筛选中基因编辑效果的识别精度,解决引导效率不一导致的误判问题。
Modeling variable guide efficiency in pooled CRISPR screens with ContrastiveVI+
- 基于对比学习的生成模型,分离基因扰动与非扰动相关变异
- 在三个大型Perturb-seq数据集中更准确恢复已知扰动效应
- 可识别未真正发生基因编辑的细胞,适合高精度功能筛选研究
基于CRISPR-Cas9与高内涵读数的遗传筛选已成为生物发现的强大工具。然而,此类筛选的计算分析面临比标准scRNA-seq更复杂的挑战:目标扰动引起的变异可能微弱且被控制组共有的主导变异掩盖;同时,引导效率差异导致部分表达引导RNA的细胞未真正发生基因编辑。尽管已有方法通过显式解耦扰动相关变异与共享变异来应对前者,但对扰动标签噪声的问题关注较少。本文提出ContrastiveVI+,一种生成建模框架,既能解耦扰动与非扰动相关变异,又能推断细胞是否真正发生基因编辑。在三个大规模Perturb-seq数据集上的应用表明,ContrastiveVI+相比以往方法更优地恢复了已知扰动效应,并成功识别出未实现功能编辑的细胞。模型开源代码见:https://github.com/insitro/contrastive_vi_plus。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Genetic screens mediated via CRISPR-Cas9 combined with high-content readouts have emerged as powerful tools for biological discovery. However, computational analyses of these screens come with additional challenges beyond those found with standard scRNA-seq analyses. For example, perturbation-induced variations of interest may be subtle and masked by other dominant source of variation shared with controls, and variable guide efficiency results in some cells not undergoing genetic perturbation despite expressing a guide RNA. While a number of methods have been developed to address the former problem by explicitly disentangling perturbation-induced variations from those shared with controls, less attention has been paid to the latter problem of noisy perturbation labels. To address this issue, here we propose ContrastiveVI+, a generative modeling framework that both disentangles perturbation-induced from non-perturbation-related variations while also inferring whether cells truly underwent genomic edits. Applied to three large-scale Perturb-seq datasets, we find that ContrastiveVI+ better recovers known perturbation-induced variations compared to previous methods while successfully identifying cells that escaped the functional consequences of guide RNA expression. An open-source implementation of our model is available at \url{https://github.com/insitro/contrastive_vi_plus}.
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