Scissor: Single-Cell Identification of Subpopulations with bulk Sample phenOtype coRrelation

Introduction

Scissor is a novel approach that utilizes the phenotypes, such as disease stage, tumor metastasis, treatment response, and survival outcomes, collected from bulk assays to identify the most highly phenotype-associated cell subpopulations from single-cell data. The workflow of Scissor is shown in the following Figure:

News

• May, 2021: Scissor version 2.1.0 is updated.
  • Add utilities for cell level evaludations including correlation check and bootstrap (function: evaluate.cell)
• Feb, 2021: Scissor version 2.0.0 is launched.
  • Optimize the inputs and outputs in Scissor main function
  • Add utilities for the reliability significance test (function: reliability.test)
• Jun, 2020: Scissor version 1.0.0 is launched.

Installation

• Prerequisites: Scissor is developed under R (version >= 3.6.1). The Seurat package (version >= 3.2.0) is used for loading data and preprocessing.

• Latest version: The latest developmental version of Scissor can be downloaded from GitHub and installed from source by devtools::install_github('sunduanchen/Scissor')

Manual

Please see https://sunduanchen.github.io/Scissor/vignettes/Scissor_Tutorial.html for details. In the R terminal, please use the command ?Scissor to access the help documents.

Examples

In our Scissor Tutorial, we use several applications on the Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAD) scRNA-seq cancer cells as examples to show how to execute Scissor in real applications.

How to cite Scissor

Please cite the following manuscript:

Identifying phenotype-associated subpopulations by integrating bulk and single-cell sequencing data. Nature Biotechnology (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01091-3.
Duanchen Sun, Xiangnan Guan, Amy E. Moran, Ling-Yun Wu, David Z. Qian, Pepper Schedin, Mu-Shui Dai, Alexey V. Danilov, Joshi J. Alumkal, Andrew C. Adey, Paul T. Spellman and Zheng Xia

License

Scissor is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Improvements and new features of Scissor will be updated on a regular basis. Please post on the GitHub discussion page with any questions.