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singlet v.0.0.99

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Singlet brings fast Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) with automatic rank determination to the Seurat package for single-cell analysis.

Install 

devtools::install_github("zdebruine/singlet")

Introductory Vignette

Guided clustering tutorial

Dimension Reduction with NMF

Analyze your single-cell assay with NMF:

library(singlet)
library(Seurat)
library(dplyr)
library(cowplot)
set.seed(123)

pbmc3k <- singlet::get_pbmc3k_data() %>%
  NormalizeData() %>%
  RunNMF() %>%
  RunUMAP(pbmc3k, reduction = "nmf", dims = 1:ncol(pbmc3k@reductions$nmf))

plot_grid(
     RankPlot(pbmc3k) + NoLegend(), 
     DimPlot(pbmc3k) + NoLegend(), 
     ncol = 2)

NMF can do almost anything that PCA can do, but also imputes missing signal, always has an optimal rank (for variance-stabilized data), uses all the information in your assay (incl. “non-variable” genes), is robust across experiments, learns signatures of transcriptional activity, and is colinear and non-negative (interpretable) rather than orthogonal and signed (not interpretable)

Singlet internally provides the fastest implementation of NMF. Cross-validation can take a few minutes for datasets with a few ten thousand cells, but is extremely scalable and runs excellently on HPC nodes and average laptops alike.