TY - JOUR A1 - Regényi, Enikő A1 - Mashreghi, Mir-Farzin A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Sunkara, Vikram T1 - Exploring transcription modalities from bimodal, single-cell RNA sequencing data JF - NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics N2 - Abstract There is a growing interest in generating bimodal, single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data for studying biological pathways. These data are predominantly utilized in understanding phenotypic trajectories using RNA velocities; however, the shape information encoded in the two-dimensional resolution of such data is not yet exploited. In this paper, we present an elliptical parametrization of two-dimensional RNA-seq data, from which we derived statistics that reveal four different modalities. These modalities can be interpreted as manifestations of the changes in the rates of splicing, transcription or degradation. We performed our analysis on a cell cycle and a colorectal cancer dataset. In both datasets, we found genes that are not picked up by differential gene expression analysis (DGEA), and are consequently unnoticed, yet visibly delineate phenotypes. This indicates that, in addition to DGEA, searching for genes that exhibit the discovered modalities could aid recovering genes that set phenotypes apart. For communities studying biomarkers and cellular phenotyping, the modalities present in bimodal RNA-seq data broaden the search space of genes, and furthermore, allow for incorporating cellular RNA processing into regulatory analyses. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqae179 SN - 2631-9268 VL - 6 IS - 4 PB - Oxford University Press (OUP) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sunkara, Vikram A1 - Heinz, Gitta A. A1 - Heinrich, Frederik F. A1 - Durek, Pawel A1 - Mobasheri, Ali A1 - Mashreghi, Mir-Farzin A1 - Lang, Annemarie T1 - Combining segmental bulk- and single-cell RNA-sequencing to define the chondrocyte gene expression signature in the murine knee joint JF - Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.03.007 VL - 29 IS - 6 SP - 905 EP - 914 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sunkara, Vikram A1 - Heinz, Gitta A. A1 - Heinrich, Frederik F. A1 - Durek, Pawel A1 - Mobasheri, Ali A1 - Mashreghi, Mir-Farzin A1 - Lang, Annemarie T1 - Combining segmental bulk- and single-cell RNA-sequencing to define the chondrocyte gene expression signature in the murine knee joint JF - bioarxiv (Accepted in Osteoarthr. Cartil.) Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.13.148056 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lang, Annemarie A1 - Vester, Antja A1 - Ferreira-Gomes, M. A1 - Guerra, G.M. A1 - Heinrich, Fredrich R. A1 - Götzke, C.C. A1 - Kurmies, Sebastian A1 - Sunkara, Vikram A1 - Durek, Pawel A1 - Boerckel, Joel D. A1 - Mashreghi, Mir-Farzin T1 - PIPELINE FOR SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING OF HUMAN CHONDROCYTE PELLET CULTURES TO DELINEATE IL-1β MODULATED CHANGES IN CELL HETEROGENEITY JF - Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2022.02.112 VL - 30 IS - Supplement 1 SP - S90 ER -