arXiv:2606.18672cs.LGcs.AI2026-06中稿 · Proceedings of the…

用图注意力网络融合基因表达与细胞结构,提升单细胞测序聚类精度

scGTN: Deep Siamese Graph Transformer Network for Single-cell RNA Sequencing Clustering

论文配图:scGTN: Deep Siamese Graph Transformer Network for Single-cell RNA Sequencing Clustering
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  • 构建双视角图数据,融合基因表达与细胞间结构关系
  • 通过最短路径和节点距离捕捉细胞间复杂依赖,提升聚类效果
  • 自监督最优传输策略引导聚类,适合生物医学研究者使用

单细胞RNA测序(scRNA-seq)在细胞水平解析基因表达中发挥关键作用,有助于识别细胞类型并深化对细胞异质性的理解。尽管已有诸多进展,现有方法常忽略scRNA-seq数据中的稀疏性、噪声及复杂的细胞间结构信息。为此,本文提出一种新型单细胞测序聚类框架scGTN,通过深度孪生图变换网络,显式整合基因表达谱与细胞间结构依赖关系。具体地,将scRNA-seq数据建模为图,并构建两个增强的图视图作为双视角,以捕获互补的细胞间信息;采用孪生图变换网络显式引入最短路径信息与节点间距离,以捕捉更丰富的细胞间结构关系;最后,利用最优传输策略实现自监督引导的细胞聚类。在多个基准scRNA-seq数据集上的实验表明,scGTN持续优于现有方法。代码已开源:https://github.com/W-RMSL/scGTN。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) serves a pivotal role in characterizing gene expression at the cellular level, enabling the identification of cell types and advancing the understanding of cellular heterogeneity. Despite the significant progress in scRNA-seq data clustering, we argue that current methods always ignore the sparsity and noise, as well as the complex intercellular structural information inherent in scRNA-seq data. Toward this end, in this paper, we propose a novel single-cell RNA-seq clustering framework via deep Siamese Graph Transformer Network (termed scGTN), which explicitly integrates gene expression profile and intercellular structural dependencies for cell clustering. In particular, we formulate scRNA-seq data as a graph and construct two augmented graph views that serve as dual views to capture complementary intercellular information. Then, a Siamese graph transformer network is employed to explicitly incorporate shortest-path information and node-wise distances for capturing richer structural relationships between cells. Finally, we employ an optimal transport strategy to guide the cell clustering in a self-supervised manner. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark scRNA-seq datasets demonstrate that our scGTN consistently outperforms existing methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/W-RMSL/scGTN.

单细胞测序图神经网络聚类生物信息学

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