PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thalia E Chan
AU  - Michael PH Stumpf
AU  - Ann C Babtie
TI  - Network inference and hypotheses-generation from single-cell transcriptomic data using multivariate information measures
AID  - 10.1101/082099
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 082099
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/20/082099.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/20/082099.full
AB  - Developmental processes are carefully orchestrated. A multi-cellular organism can only emerge from a single fertilised egg cell because gene expression is robustly regulated in space and time by networks of transcriptional regulators. Single cell transcriptomic data allow us to probe and map these networks in unprecedented detail. Here we develop an information theoretical framework to infer candidate gene (co-)regulatory networks and distill mechanistic hypotheses from single cell data. Information theory offers clear advantages for such data, where cell-to-cell variability is all pervasive and sample sizes are large. Higher-order information theoretical functionals capture interactions and dependencies between genes reliably in both in silico and real data.