Immune cell identifier and classifier (ImmunIC) for single cell transcriptomic readouts

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Abstract

Single cell RNA sequencing has a central role in immune profiling, identifying specific immune cells as disease markers and suggesting therapeutic target genes of immune cells. Immune cell-type annotation from single cell transcriptomics is in high demand for dissecting complex immune signatures from multicellular blood and organ samples. However, accurate cell type assignment from single-cell RNA sequencing data alone is complicated by a high level of gene expression heterogeneity. Many computational methods have been developed to respond to this challenge, but immune cell annotation accuracy is not highly desirable. We present ImmunIC, a simple and robust tool for immune cell identification and classification by combining marker genes with a machine learning method. With over two million immune cells and half-million non-immune cells from 66 single cell RNA sequencing studies, ImmunIC shows 98% accuracy in the identification of immune cells. ImmunIC outperforms existing immune cell classifiers, categorizing into ten immune cell types with 92% accuracy. We determine peripheral blood mononuclear cell compositions of severe COVID-19 cases and healthy controls using previously published single cell transcriptomic data, permitting the identification of immune cell-type specific differential pathways. Our publicly available tool can maximize the utility of single cell RNA profiling by functioning as a stand-alone bioinformatic cell sorter, advancing cell-type specific immune profiling for the discovery of disease-specific immune signatures and therapeutic targets.

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Park, S. Y., Ter-Saakyan, S., Faraci, G., & Lee, H. Y. (2023). Immune cell identifier and classifier (ImmunIC) for single cell transcriptomic readouts. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39282-4

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