📍 Scaling dense representations for single cell with transcriptome-scale context Ho et al. developed AIDO.Cell, a pretrained module for representing gene expression and cellular systems in an AI-driven Digital Organism. Key points ◾ 3M, 10M, 100M, and 650M parameter encoder-only dense Transformer models ◾ Pre-training on 50 million human cells from diverse tissues using a read-depth-aware masked gene expression pretraining objective ◾ Handling the entire human transcriptome as input without truncation or sampling tricks ◾ Achieving state-of- the-art results in zero-shot clustering, cell-type classification, and perturbation modeling ◾ Available through ModelGenerator in https://lnkd.in/epy_jZc9 and on Hugging Face. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eEKjYw98 #CMU #CarnegieMellonUniversity #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
Biotechnology Research
A global community of professionals who use different methods of single cell analysis
About us
The ASCA mission is "The increase in educational level and scientific communication in the field of single cell analysis in order to accelerate investigations of biological objects and to understand mechanisms of disease development". To stay up to date with the key news from the single cell analysis world, follow us at our Telegram channels: 🔸News (https://t.me/ascanews), where you can get information about new methods in single-cell analysis, bright single-cell researches, meetings, etc. 🔸Chat (https://t.me/ascatalk), where you can get technical support in single-cell analysis (just ask your question here) and communicate with other ASCA members.
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External link for Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
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- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Nonprofit
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- 2022
Employees at Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
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Evgeny Denisov
Head of Cancer Progression Biology (Tomsk NRMC) and Single Cell Biology (RUDN) Labs | ASCA President | Single Cell Enthusiast | Beating Cancer…
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Chakit Arora, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore, Bioinformatics | Computational Biology
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Anastasia Frolova
ASCA (Association for Single Cell Analysis)
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Tatiana Denisova
Updates
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📍 Cellular and molecular innovations in the anterior cingulate cortex during primate evolution Yuan et al. generated profiles of human and macaque anterior cingulate cortex gene expression and chromatin accessibility at single-nucleus resolution. Highlights 🔸 Cross-species single-nucleus multiome profiling of anterior cingulate cortex 🔸 Dissection of molecular identity and cell-lineage origin of the primate von Economo neurons 🔸 Human-specific von Economo neuron marker genes affect neuron morphogenesis during development 🔸 Human-specific sequence changes account for regulatory divergence during evolution ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/ei-3ywqU #ChineseAcademyofSciences #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Cell-type-specific regulation of splicing and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases Tian et al. described cell-type-specific, sex-biased and ancestry-biased alternative splicing in ~1 M peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 474 healthy donors from the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas. Key findings ✔️ Widespread sex-biased and ancestry-biased differential splicing, most of which is cell-type-specific ✔️ 11,577 independent cis-splicing quantitative trait loci (sQTLs), 607 trans-sGenes and 107 dynamic sQTLs ✔️ A cell-type-specific regulatory relationship between HNRNPLL and PTPRC ✔️ An enrichment of cis-sQTL effects in autoimmune and inflammatory disease heritability ✔️ An Asian-specific sQTL disrupting the 5′ splice site of TCHP exon 4 and putatively modulating the risk of Graves’ disease in East Asian populations. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/gy6Q8PTx #UniversityofSingapore #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📌 Focus on single-cell genomics The recent issue of Nature Neuroscience celebrates recent methodological and analytical advances in single-cell genomics, highlights principles of study design, and aims to encourage collaboration between cellular, molecular and systems neuroscientists. Key reviews 📌 Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery 📌 Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience 📌 Applying single-cell and single-nucleus genomics to studies of cellular heterogeneity and cell fate transitions in the nervous system. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/e8aqdvPD #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 A quantitative, time-resolved model of human T cell fate specification Michaels et al. used genetic perturbations, transcribed lineage barcoding, and advanced computational tools to dissect the gene expression dynamics and cell fate decisions that control T lineage specification from stem cells Highlights 🔹 Pluripotent stem cells are a resource for studying human immune fate specification 🔹 Knocking out YBX1 reduces T lineage output 🔹 Mast potential and myeloid potential diverge early during blood development 🔹 T cells and myeloid cells have a high degree of shared clonal ancestry ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eDnakKNs #UniversityofBritishColumbia #ubc #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 The evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones Lucas et al. introduce the SPRINTER algorithm that uses single-cell whole-genome DNA sequencing data to enable accurate identification and clone assignment of S- and G2-phase cells, as assessed by generating accurate ground truth data. Key findings ✔️ Widespread clone proliferation heterogeneity, orthogonally supported by Ki-67 staining, nuclei imaging and clinical imaging ✔️ High-proliferation clones demonstrating increased metastatic seeding potential, increased circulating tumor DNA shedding and clone-specific altered replication timing ✔️ Increased single-cell rates of different genomic variants and enrichment of proliferation-related gene amplifications in high-proliferation clones ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/ePjWa3bh #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Systemic coordination of whole-body tissue remodeling during local regeneration in sea anemones Cheung et al. conducted an in-depth investigation of regeneration in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis, comparing intact and regenerating animals, from genome-wide expression patterns and molecular activities to tissue dynamics and overall organismal shape. Highlights 📍 Tomo-seq identifies local and systemic responses in regenerating Nematostella 📍 Physa regeneration triggers both morphallactic and epimorphic processes 📍 Local and systemic matrix metalloprotease levels scale with tissue loss 📍 Matrix metalloproteases remodel basement membranes to maintain shape homeostasis ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/ee7rQrFA #EMBL #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Tissue-of-origin and spatially dependent metabolic rewiring in renal and colorectal cancer Maspero et al. presented Spatial Flux Balance Analysis (spFBA), a novel framework that processes spatial transcriptomics data to enrich metabolic fluxes at the spatial spot resolution. Key points 🔸 Steady-state modeling and integration of the transcriptional information into flux boundary constraints 🔸 The simulation of fluxes while accounting for indirect transcriptional regulation via substrate availability 🔸 Enhancing the expressive power of traditional pathway enrichment frameworks by capturing reaction directionality and metabolic growth rates 🔸 Revealing distinct metabolically-defined subpopulations with spatial arrangements in renal and colorectal cancer ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/e5_iZucJ #UniversityofMilanoBicocca #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 A sample multiplexing protocol for droplet-based simultaneous single nuclei RNA- and ATAC-seq systems Li and Haydar presented a Multiplexed Multiome (MuMu) protocol that for the first time allows the pooling of single nuclei from multiple biological samples prior to performing simultaneous single nuclei RNA-seq and ATAC-seq. Key points 💥 Assembling the custom Tn5 transposome 💥 Performing the transposition reaction and nuclei pooling 💥 Sequencing library preparation and data pre-processing 💥 Greatly reducing the cost of sn-Multiome ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eCWjju6B #ChildrensNationalMedicalCenter #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Granzyme K+CD8+ T cells interact with fibroblasts to promote neutrophilic inflammation in nasal polyps Guo et al. integrated scRNA-seq, single-cell TCR sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to profile the transcriptomes of CD45+lymphocytes, with a particular focus on CD8+ T cells and their spatial interactions in the nasal mucosa of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. Key findings ◾ An increased presence of granzyme K+(GZMK+) CD8+ T cells in nasal polyps ◾ GZMK+CD8+ T cells expressing CXCR4 and inducing the production of neutrophil chemoattractants in CXCL12-secreting fibroblasts ◾ GZMK+CD8+ T cells exhibiting a selective expansion of clones that recognize Epstein-Barr virus ◾ The GZMK+CD8+ T cell-fibroblast crosstalk observed in other inflammatory diseases. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eptwVGmw #HuazhongUniversityofScienceandTechnology #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell