Aligning heterogenous single cell assay datasets

Pluripotent stem cells offer strong promise for regenerative medicine but the pluripotent cell state is poorly understood. The goal of this thesis is the development of methods to analyze how the multiple facets of cell state-including gene expression, chromosome contacts, and chromatin accessibility-relate in the context of stem cells. The variability of each of these characteristics cannot be deduced from population studies, and while recent advances in single-cell transcriptomics have led to the development of a number of different single-cell assays, datasets that collect multiple types of assays on the same cells are rare. In this thesis, we explore the ability of three methods to integrate datasets from different single-cell assays based on an existing paired single-cell dataset of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq for human A549 cells. We then apply these methods to map the variability between three single-cell datasets-ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, and Hi-C-on pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells and assess the performance of these methods.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Katcoff, Abigail.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Caroline Uhler.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123030

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123030