Annotation transfer

Annotated cells

(e.g. published data)

Not-annotated

cells (e.g. your data)

Pros

  • Easy to run
  • Utilizes existing knowledge
  • As good as the alignment

Cons

  • Requires pre-annotated data
  • Can't be easily tuned
  • Isn't aware about cell type relationships
  • If it doesn't work there is nothing you can do

Marker-based assignment

*Probabilistic cell-type assignment of single-cell RNA-seq for tumor microenvironment profiling, Nature Methods 2019

Pros

  • Intuitive
  • Verifiable
  • Transferable across datasets

Cons

  • Suffers from drop-outs
  • Requires detailed annotation
  • "Binarizes" expression matrix
  • Very laborious

Bordaeux, annotation types

By Viktor Petukhov

Bordaeux, annotation types

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