Guest lecture Miao-Ping Chien - Phenotype-based target cell subtyping and profiling

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Single cell sequencing (scSeq) preserve information of an individual cell, they can capture?

Heterogeneity of a sample

Application of single-cell RNA seq

  1. Understand molecular mechanisms & identify target genes:
    • Therapy resistance
    • Cell differentiation
    • Mechanisms that drive a process
  2. Identify new cell types
    • Understanding the role of heterogeneity in biological processes and disease formation
    • Clustering analysis with tSNE

Standard single-cell RNA-seq pipeline

  1. Quality control & feature selection
  2. Dimensionality reduction & clustering (!)
  3. Marker identification
  4. Interpretation
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Difficulties of subtyping cells

  • Technical issues
  • RNA != protein
  • Similar expression profiles between subgroups of cells

Difficulties with tumor cell subtyping

  • Tumor cells are highly heterogeneous
  • How many subtypes?
  • No robust biomarkers for each subtype pf tumor cells
  • Does every subtype of tumor cells matter (in terms of tumorgenesis)?

An alternative for biomarkers to subtype tumor?

Subtype tumor cells based on functional phenotype

Challenges in scRNA-seq pipeline

  1. Feature selection: what if the cells of interest are very rare?
  2. Dimensionality reduction and clustering: what if the cells are transcriptomically similar?
  3. Marker identification: what if no usable markers are available
  4. Interpretation: cannot link genotypes to (functional) phenotypes

Chromosomoal instability (CIN)

Increased rate of change in structure or number of chromosomes

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