Most existing dimensionality reduction and clustering packages for single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data deal with dropouts by heavy modeling and computational machinery. Here, we introduce CIDR (Clustering through Imputation and Dimensionality Reduction), an ultrafast algorithm that uses a novel yet very simple implicit imputation approach to alleviate the impact of dropouts in scRNA-seq data in a principled manner. Using a range of simulated and real data, we show that CIDR improves the standard principal component analysis and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, namely t-SNE, ZIFA, and RaceID, in terms of clustering accuracy. CIDR typically completes within seconds when processing a data set of hundreds of cells and minutes for a data set of thousands of cells. CIDR can be downloaded at https://github.com/VCCRI/CIDR.
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Lin, P., Troup, M., & Ho, J. W. K. (2017). CIDR: Ultrafast and accurate clustering through imputation for single-cell RNA-seq data. Genome Biology, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1188-0
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