Experiments

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• Leveraging RNA-seq deconvolution to improve complex in vitro model characterization.

  PMID 40701251 · PMC12391696 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  RNA-seq deconvolution can predict cell type proportions from bulk RNA-seq using scRNA-seq references, offering a useful characterization tool for CIVMs where single-cell methods are impractical

  intestine rodent duodenal neonatal bulk scrna-seq marker

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• omnideconv: a unifying framework for using and benchmarking single-cell-informed deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data.

  PMID 41582216 · PMC12837286 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  omnideconv is an R package providing a unified interface to twelve second-generation deconvolution methods (AutoGeneS, BayesPrism, Bseq-SC, Bisque, CDseq, CIBERSORTx, CPM, DWLS, MOMF, MuSiC, SCDC, Scaden)

  blood-derived pbmc blood spleen bulk scrna-seq pseudo-bulk

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk

• Identifying clinically relevant cell state interactions in the tumor microenvironment of IDH-mutant gliomas using CSI-TME.

  PMID 41807578 · PMC13230996 · Molecular systems biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CSI-TME is a computational pipeline that deconvolves bulk tumor RNA-seq into cell-type-specific expression (via CODEFACS), infers transcriptional states per cell type via ICA, and identifies IC pairs from two cell types whose joint activity is associated with survival via Cox regression

  idh-mutant tcga cgga deconvolved scrna-seq bulk independent

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• LIMPACAT: Multi-omics attention transformer for immune prediction in liver cancer using whole-slide imaging.

  PMID 41511965 · PMC12788640 · PloS one · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  LIMPACAT, a multiple instance learning attention transformer, predicts immune cell levels relevant to HCC prognosis directly from whole-slide images

  hcc simulated pbmc tcga-lihc scrna-seq type deconvolution

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• Non-negative matrix factorization and deconvolution as a dual simplex problem.

  PMID 41535969 · PMC12888666 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  The NMF optimization problem can be reduced to searching for K(K-1) variables, independent of the original matrix size M×N.

  unconstrained bulk single-cell image bulk single-cell

• Single-cell multiomics profiling reveals heterogeneous transcriptional programs and microenvironment in DSRCTs.

  PMID 38781959 · PMC11228554 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DSRCT tumor cells cluster into consistent subpopulations with partially overlapping lineage- and metabolism-related transcriptional programs across patients and samples

  fresh matched archived dsrct scrna-seq single-nucleus bulk

• Multi-modal skin atlas identifies a multicellular immune-stromal community associated with disrupted cornification and specific T cell expansion in atopic dermatitis.

  PMID 41741455 · PMC13057205 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a multi-modal single-cell atlas of 280,518 cells from 27 samples/17 adults (healthy, AD non-lesional/lesional, scleroderma), integrated with 430,186 cells from four prior studies into a 710,704-cell human skin atlas with 86 annotated granular cell subsets.

  skin healthy keratinocytes re-annotated droplet-based scrna-seq bulk

• Differential bone morphology and hypoxia activity in skeletal metastases of ER(+) and ER(-) breast cancer.

  PMID 39572705 · PMC11582807 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ER− MDA-MB-231 breast cancer forms more osteolytic bone metastases than ER+ MCF-7 breast cancer

  mcf-7 breast bone tumor-free immunofluorescence co-culture rna-seq

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• A reference profile-free deconvolution method to infer cancer cell-intrinsic subtypes and tumor-type-specific stromal profiles.

  PMID 32111252 · PMC7049190 · Genome medicine · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DeClust is a reference-profile-free deconvolution method that incorporates molecular subtyping directly into the deconvolution process, outputting cohort-level cancer subtype and stromal reference profiles rather than per-individual profiles

  tcga simulated muscle-invasive ccrcc computational simulation-based deconvolution

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes associated with M2 macrophage and heme metabolism in lung adenocarcinoma through bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

  PMID 41787185 · PMC13076703 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EPB41, ACP5, PPOX, RBM38, and TRIM58 were identified as prognostic genes for LUAD

  tcga-luad gse131907 clinical cibersort gsea spearman

• CellMap: precision mapping of cellular landscape in spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41505103 · PMC12781899 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 3 setups

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  CellMap combines co-linearity of seed genes, a random forest model, and the linear assignment algorithm to achieve optimal assignment of single cells to spatial spots

  platforms single-cell expression computational scrna-seq spatial

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• Machine learning-based identification of biomarkers and drugs in immunologically cold and hot pancreatic adenocarcinomas.

  PMID 39152432 · PMC11328457 · Journal of translational medicine · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PAAD tumors can be consensus-clustered into immunologically hot and cold subtypes based on CIBERSORT-derived immune cell fractions, with significantly different survival outcomes.

  paad degs bulk consensus tumor

• DANST enables cell-type deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics using deep domain adversarial neural networks.

  PMID 41663685 · PMC12996496 · Communications biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  DANST, a deconvolution framework using deep domain adversarial neural networks, achieves superior cell-type deconvolution accuracy compared with existing methods on human and mouse benchmark datasets

  heart cortex visual brain spatial cell-type