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- Title
A comparison of single-cell trajectory inference methods.
- Authors
Saelens, Wouter; Cannoodt, Robrecht; Todorov, Helena; Saeys, Yvan
- Abstract
Trajectory inference approaches analyze genome-wide omics data from thousands of single cells and computationally infer the order of these cells along developmental trajectories. Although more than 70 trajectory inference tools have already been developed, it is challenging to compare their performance because the input they require and output models they produce vary substantially. Here, we benchmark 45 of these methods on 110 real and 229 synthetic datasets for cellular ordering, topology, scalability and usability. Our results highlight the complementarity of existing tools, and that the choice of method should depend mostly on the dataset dimensions and trajectory topology. Based on these results, we develop a set of guidelines to help users select the best method for their dataset. Our freely available data and evaluation pipeline (https://benchmark.dynverse.org) will aid in the development of improved tools designed to analyze increasingly large and complex single-cell datasets. The authors comprehensively benchmark the accuracy, scalability, stability and usability of 45 single-cell trajectory inference methods.
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2019, Vol 37, Issue 5, p547
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41587-019-0071-9