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Analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data: building and annotating an atlas

This Python notebook pre-processes the pbmc_1k v3 dataset from 10X Genomics with kallisto and bustools using kb, and then performs an analysis of the cell types and their marker genes.

The notebook was written by A. Sina Booeshaghi and Lior Pachter and is based on three noteboks: - The kallisto | bustools Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq I notebook. - The kallisto | bustools Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq II notebook. - The Scanpy Preprocessing and clustering 3k PBMCs" notebook.

If you use the methods in this notebook for your analysis please cite the following publications which describe the tools used in the notebook:

  • Melsted, P., Booeshaghi, A.S. et al. Modular and efficient pre-processing of single-cell RNA-seq. bioRxiv (2019). doi:10.1101/673285
  • Wolf, F. A., Angere, P. and Theis, F.J. SCANPY: large-scale single-cell gene expression data analysis. Genome Biology (2018). doi:10.1186/s13059-017-1382-0

An R notebook implementing the same analysis is available here. See the kallistobus.tools tutorials site for additional notebooks demonstrating other analyses.

Setup

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# This is  used to time the running of the notebook
import time
start_time = time.time()

Install python packages

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%%time
# These packages are pre-installed on Google Colab, but are included here to simplify running this notebook locally
!pip install --quiet matplotlib scikit-learn numpy scipy
!pip3 install --quiet leidenalg
!pip install --quiet louvain scanpy

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Install kb-python

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!pip install --quiet kb-python 

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Download the data

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%%time
# Download the data from the 10x website
!wget -q http://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.0/pbmc_1k_v3/pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs.tar

# unpack the downloaded files
!tar -xf pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs.tar

CPU times: user 1.41 s, sys: 199 ms, total: 1.6 s
Wall time: 3min 3s

Download an index

This data consists of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a human, so we download the human index.

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!kb ref -d human -i index.idx -g t2g.txt -f1 transcriptome.fasta

[2021-03-31 21:09:56,028]    INFO Downloading files for human from https://caltech.box.com/shared/static/v1nm7lpnqz5syh8dyzdk2zs8bglncfib.gz to tmp/v1nm7lpnqz5syh8dyzdk2zs8bglncfib.gz
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[2021-03-31 21:11:42,360]    INFO Extracting files from tmp/v1nm7lpnqz5syh8dyzdk2zs8bglncfib.gz

Pseudoalignment and counting

Run kallisto and bustools

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!kb count --h5ad -i index.idx -g t2g.txt -x 10xv3 -o output --filter bustools -t 2 \
pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz \
pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz \
pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz \
pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L002_R2_001.fastq.gz

[2021-03-31 21:12:22,466]    INFO Using index index.idx to generate BUS file to output from
[2021-03-31 21:12:22,466]    INFO         pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz
[2021-03-31 21:12:22,467]    INFO         pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz
[2021-03-31 21:12:22,467]    INFO         pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L002_R1_001.fastq.gz
[2021-03-31 21:12:22,467]    INFO         pbmc_1k_v3_fastqs/pbmc_1k_v3_S1_L002_R2_001.fastq.gz
[2021-03-31 21:27:43,495]    INFO Sorting BUS file output/output.bus to output/tmp/output.s.bus
[2021-03-31 21:28:15,485]    INFO Whitelist not provided
[2021-03-31 21:28:15,485]    INFO Copying pre-packaged 10XV3 whitelist to output
[2021-03-31 21:28:16,575]    INFO Inspecting BUS file output/tmp/output.s.bus
[2021-03-31 21:28:39,940]    INFO Correcting BUS records in output/tmp/output.s.bus to output/tmp/output.s.c.bus with whitelist output/10xv3_whitelist.txt
[2021-03-31 21:29:05,490]    INFO Sorting BUS file output/tmp/output.s.c.bus to output/output.unfiltered.bus
[2021-03-31 21:29:34,684]    INFO Generating count matrix output/counts_unfiltered/cells_x_genes from BUS file output/output.unfiltered.bus
[2021-03-31 21:29:51,979]    INFO Reading matrix output/counts_unfiltered/cells_x_genes.mtx
[2021-03-31 21:30:00,389]    INFO Writing matrix to h5ad output/counts_unfiltered/adata.h5ad
[2021-03-31 21:30:01,376]    INFO Filtering with bustools
[2021-03-31 21:30:01,376]    INFO Generating whitelist output/filter_barcodes.txt from BUS file output/output.unfiltered.bus
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[2021-03-31 21:30:52,494]    INFO Reading matrix output/counts_filtered/cells_x_genes.mtx
[2021-03-31 21:30:58,622]    INFO Writing matrix to h5ad output/counts_filtered/adata.h5ad
CPU times: user 8.81 s, sys: 1.03 s, total: 9.84 s
Wall time: 18min 38s

Basic QC

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import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import scanpy as sc
import anndata
from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

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sc.settings.verbosity = 3             # verbosity: errors (0), warnings (1), info (2), hints (3)
sc.settings.set_figure_params(dpi=80)

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# load the unfiltered matrix
results_file = 'pbmc1k.h5ad'  # the file that will store the analysis results
adata = anndata.read_h5ad("output/counts_unfiltered/adata.h5ad")
adata.var["gene_id"] = adata.var.index.values

t2g = pd.read_csv("t2g.txt", header=None, names=["tid", "gene_id", "gene_name"], sep="\t")
t2g.index = t2g.gene_id
t2g = t2g.loc[~t2g.index.duplicated(keep='first')]

adata.var["gene_name"] = adata.var.gene_id.map(t2g["gene_name"])
adata.var.index = adata.var["gene_name"]

adata.var_names_make_unique()  # this is unnecessary if using `var_names='gene_ids'` in `sc.read_10x_mtx`

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/anndata/utils.py:117: UserWarning: Suffix used (-[0-9]+) to deduplicate index values may make index values difficult to interpret. There values with a similar suffixes in the index. Consider using a different delimiter by passing `join={delimiter}`Example key collisions generated by the make_index_unique algorithm: ['SNORD116-1', 'SNORD116-2', 'SNORD116-3', 'SNORD116-4', 'SNORD116-5']
  + str(example_colliding_values)

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adata

AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 259615 × 60623
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id'

Test for library saturation

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# Create a plot showing genes detected as a function of UMI counts.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7, 7))

x = np.asarray(adata.X.sum(axis=1))[:,0]
y = np.asarray(np.sum(adata.X>0, axis=1))[:,0]

ax.scatter(x, y, color="green", alpha=0.25)
ax.set_xlabel("UMI Counts")
ax.set_ylabel("Genes Detected")
ax.set_xscale('log')
ax.set_yscale('log')

ax.set_xlim(1)
ax.set_ylim(1)


plt.show()

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This plot is very misleading, as even the small alpha can't accurately show how many points are stacked at one location (This takes about a minute to run since there are a lot of points)

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fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(7,7))

#histogram definition
bins = [1500, 1500] # number of bins

# histogram the data
hh, locx, locy = np.histogram2d(x, y, bins=bins)

# Sort the points by density, so that the densest points are plotted last
z = np.array([hh[np.argmax(a<=locx[1:]),np.argmax(b<=locy[1:])] for a,b in zip(x,y)])
idx = z.argsort()
x2, y2, z2 = x[idx], y[idx], z[idx]


s = ax.scatter(x2, y2, c=z2, cmap='Greens')  
fig.colorbar(s, ax=ax)

ax.set_xscale('log')
ax.set_yscale('log')
ax.set_xlabel("UMI Counts")
ax.set_ylabel("Genes Detected")

ax.set_xlim(1, 10**5)
ax.set_ylim(1, 10**4)

plt.show()

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Examine the knee plot

The "knee plot" was introduced in the Drop-seq paper: - Macosko et al., Highly parallel genome-wide expression profiling of individual cells using nanoliter droplets, 2015. DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.002

In this plot cells are ordered by the number of UMI counts associated to them (shown on the x-axis), and the fraction of droplets with at least that number of cells is shown on the y-axis:

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#@title Threshold cells according to knee plot { run: "auto", vertical-output: true }
expected_num_cells =  1178#@param {type:"integer"}
knee = np.sort((np.array(adata.X.sum(axis=1))).flatten())[::-1]

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 7))

ax.loglog(knee, range(len(knee)), linewidth=5, color="g")
ax.axvline(x=knee[expected_num_cells], linewidth=3, color="k")
ax.axhline(y=expected_num_cells, linewidth=3, color="k")

ax.set_xlabel("UMI Counts")
ax.set_ylabel("Set of Barcodes")

plt.grid(True, which="both")
plt.show()

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Analysis

It is useful to examine mitochondrial genes, which are important for quality control. (Lun, McCarthy & Marioni, 2017) write that

High proportions are indicative of poor-quality cells (Islam et al. 2014; Ilicic et al. 2016), possibly because of loss of cytoplasmic RNA from perforated cells. The reasoning is that mitochondria are larger than individual transcript molecules and less likely to escape through tears in the cell membrane.

Note you can also use the function pp.calculate_qc_metrics to compute the fraction of mitochondrial genes and additional measures.

Show those genes that yield the highest fraction of counts in each single cells, across all cells.

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sc.pl.highest_expr_genes(adata, n_top=20)

normalizing counts per cell
WARNING: Some cells have total count of genes equal to zero
    finished (0:00:00)

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Filter

Begin by filtering cells according to various criteria. First, a filter for genes and cells based on minimum thresholds:

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# Removes cells with less than 1070 umi counts
adata = adata[np.asarray(adata.X.sum(axis=1)).reshape(-1) > 1070]

# Removes genes with 0 umi counts
adata = adata[:, np.asarray(adata.X.sum(axis=0)).reshape(-1) > 0]

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adata

View of AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 1180 × 31837
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id'

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sc.pp.filter_cells(adata, min_genes=200)
sc.pp.filter_genes(adata, min_cells=3)

filtered out 5 cells that have less than 200 genes expressed
Trying to set attribute `.obs` of view, copying.
filtered out 5884 genes that are detected in less than 3 cells

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adata

AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 1175 × 25953
    obs: 'n_genes'
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id', 'n_cells'

Next, filter by mitochondrial gene content

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mito_genes = adata.var_names.str.startswith('MT-')
# for each cell compute fraction of counts in mito genes vs. all genes
# the `.A1` is only necessary as X is sparse (to transform to a dense array after summing)
adata.obs['percent_mito'] = np.sum(
    adata[:, mito_genes].X, axis=1).A1 / np.sum(adata.X, axis=1).A1
# add the total counts per cell as observations-annotation to adata
adata.obs['n_counts'] = adata.X.sum(axis=1).A1

Perform a QC check of the counts post-filtering

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sc.pl.violin(adata, ['n_genes', 'n_counts', 'percent_mito'],
             jitter=0.4, multi_panel=True)

... storing 'gene_name' as categorical

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#examine mitochondrial content 
sc.pl.scatter(adata, x='n_counts', y='percent_mito')
sc.pl.scatter(adata, x='n_counts', y='n_genes')

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# Create a mask to filter out cells with more than 6500 genes, less than 200 genes or less than 0.2 mitochondrial umi counts
mask = np.logical_or((adata.obs.n_genes < 6500).values, (adata.obs.n_genes > 200).values, (adata.obs.percent_mito < 0.2).values)

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#filter
adata = adata[mask, :]

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adata

View of AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 1175 × 25953
    obs: 'n_genes', 'percent_mito', 'n_counts'
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id', 'n_cells'

Normalize counts

Total-count normalize (library-size correct) the data matrix $\mathbf{X}$ to 10,000 reads per cell, so that counts become comparable among cells.

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# normalize counts in each cell to be equal
sc.pp.normalize_total(adata, target_sum=10**4)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/scanpy/preprocessing/_normalization.py:138: UserWarning: Revieved a view of an AnnData. Making a copy.
  view_to_actual(adata)
normalizing counts per cell
    finished (0:00:00)

Log the counts

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# Replace raw counts with their logarithm
sc.pp.log1p(adata)

Lets now look at the highest expressed genes after filtering, normalization, and log

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sc.pl.highest_expr_genes(adata, n_top=20)

normalizing counts per cell
    finished (0:00:00)

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Set the .raw attribute of AnnData object to the normalized and logarithmized raw gene expression for later use in differential testing and visualizations of gene expression. This simply freezes the state of the AnnData object.

The unnormalized data is stored in .raw.

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adata.raw = adata
**Note** The result of the following highly-variable-genes detection is stored as an annotation in `.var.highly_variable` and auto-detected by PCA and hence, `sc.pp.neighbors` and subsequent manifold/graph tools.

Identify highly-variable genes.

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# flavor="cell_ranger" is consistent with Seurat and flavor="suerat" is not consistent with Seurat
sc.pp.highly_variable_genes(adata, min_mean=0.01, max_mean=8, min_disp=1, n_top_genes=2000, flavor="cell_ranger", n_bins=20)

If you pass `n_top_genes`, all cutoffs are ignored.
extracting highly variable genes
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/statsmodels/tools/_testing.py:19: FutureWarning: pandas.util.testing is deprecated. Use the functions in the public API at pandas.testing instead.
  import pandas.util.testing as tm
    finished (0:00:01)
--> added
    'highly_variable', boolean vector (adata.var)
    'means', float vector (adata.var)
    'dispersions', float vector (adata.var)
    'dispersions_norm', float vector (adata.var)

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sc.pl.highly_variable_genes(adata)

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Regress out effects of total counts per cell and the percentage of mitochondrial genes expressed. Scale the data to unit variance.

We do not regress out as per https://github.com/theislab/scanpy/issues/526

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# sc.pp.regress_out(adata, ['n_counts', 'percent_mito'])

Scaling the data

Scale each gene to unit variance. Clip values exceeding standard deviation 10. 

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sc.pp.scale(adata, max_value=10)

... as `zero_center=True`, sparse input is densified and may lead to large memory consumption

Principal component analysis

Reduce the dimensionality of the data by running principal component analysis (PCA), which reveals the main axes of variation and denoises the data.

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# We perform PCA on just the highly variable genes
sc.tl.pca(adata, svd_solver='arpack', use_highly_variable=True)

computing PCA
    on highly variable genes
    with n_comps=50
    finished (0:00:00)

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sc.pl.pca(adata, color='CST3')

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Let us inspect the contribution of single PCs to the total variance in the data. This gives us information about how many PCs we should consider in order to compute the neighborhood relations of cells, e.g. used in the clustering function sc.tl.leiden() or tSNE sc.tl.tsne(). In our experience, often, a rough estimate of the number of PCs does fine.

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sc.pl.pca_variance_ratio(adata, log=True)

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adata

AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 1175 × 25953
    obs: 'n_genes', 'percent_mito', 'n_counts'
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id', 'n_cells', 'highly_variable', 'means', 'dispersions', 'dispersions_norm', 'mean', 'std'
    uns: 'log1p', 'hvg', 'pca'
    obsm: 'X_pca'
    varm: 'PCs'

Compute the neighborhood graph

Next we compute the neighborhood graph of cells using the PCA representation of the data matrix. You might simply use default values here. In order to be consistent with Seurat's results, we use the following values.

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sc.pp.neighbors(adata, n_neighbors=20, n_pcs=10)

computing neighbors
    using 'X_pca' with n_pcs = 10
    finished: added to `.uns['neighbors']`
    `.obsp['distances']`, distances for each pair of neighbors
    `.obsp['connectivities']`, weighted adjacency matrix (0:00:29)

Embed the neighborhood graph

UMAP

UMAP (UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction) is a manifold learning technique that can also be used to visualize cells. It was published in:

  • McInnes, Leland, John Healy, and James Melville. "Umap: Uniform manifold approximation and projection for dimension reduction." arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03426 (2018).

We run that to visualize the results:

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tl.paga(adata)
pl.paga(adata, plot=False)  # remove `plot=False` if you want to see the coarse-grained graph
tl.umap(adata, init_pos='paga')

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sc.tl.umap(adata)

computing UMAP
    finished: added
    'X_umap', UMAP coordinates (adata.obsm) (0:00:04)

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sc.pl.umap(adata, color=['CST3', 'NKG7', 'PPBP'])

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Cluster the neighborhood graph

Clustering

There are many algorithms for clustering cells, and while they have been compared in detail in various benchmarks (see e.g., Duo et al. 2018), there is no univerally agreed upon method. Here we demonstrate clustering using Louvain clustering, which is a popular method for clustering single-cell RNA-seq data. The method was published in

  • Blondel, Vincent D; Guillaume, Jean-Loup; Lambiotte, Renaud; Lefebvre, Etienne (9 October 2008). "Fast unfolding of communities in large networks". Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2008 (10): P10008.

Note that Louvain clustering directly clusters the neighborhood graph of cells, which we already computed in the previous section.

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sc.tl.louvain(adata,resolution=0.5, random_state=42)

running Louvain clustering
    using the "louvain" package of Traag (2017)
    finished: found 8 clusters and added
    'louvain', the cluster labels (adata.obs, categorical) (0:00:00)

A plot of the clusters is shown below:

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sc.pl.umap(adata, color=['louvain', 'CST3', 'NKG7'])

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Find marker genes

A key aspect of annotating a cell atlas is identifying "marker genes". These are genes specific to individual clusters that "mark" them, and are important both for assigning functions to cell clusters, and for designing downstream experiments to probe activity of clusters.

A gene marker analysis begins with ranking genes in each cluster according to how different they are relative to other clusters. Typically the t-test is used for this purpose.

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sc.tl.rank_genes_groups(adata, 'louvain', method='t-test', corr_method="bonferroni")
sc.pl.rank_genes_groups(adata, n_genes=25, sharey=False)

ranking genes
    finished: added to `.uns['rank_genes_groups']`
    'names', sorted np.recarray to be indexed by group ids
    'scores', sorted np.recarray to be indexed by group ids
    'logfoldchanges', sorted np.recarray to be indexed by group ids
    'pvals', sorted np.recarray to be indexed by group ids
    'pvals_adj', sorted np.recarray to be indexed by group ids (0:00:00)

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sc.settings.verbosity = 2  # reduce the verbosity

An alternative to the parametric t-test is the non-parametric Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney-U) test.

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sc.tl.rank_genes_groups(adata, 'louvain', method='wilcoxon', corr_method="bonferroni")
sc.pl.rank_genes_groups(adata, n_genes=25, sharey=False)

ranking genes
    finished (0:00:04)

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As an alternative, genes can be ranked using logistic regression (see Natranos et al. (2018)).

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tmp = adata.copy()

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sc.tl.rank_genes_groups(tmp, 'louvain', method='logreg')
sc.pl.rank_genes_groups(tmp, n_genes=25, sharey=False)

ranking genes
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/sklearn/linear_model/_logistic.py:940: ConvergenceWarning: lbfgs failed to converge (status=1):
STOP: TOTAL NO. of ITERATIONS REACHED LIMIT.

Increase the number of iterations (max_iter) or scale the data as shown in:
    https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/preprocessing.html
Please also refer to the documentation for alternative solver options:
    https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/linear_model.html#logistic-regression
  extra_warning_msg=_LOGISTIC_SOLVER_CONVERGENCE_MSG)
    finished (0:00:20)

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With the exceptions of IL7R, which is only found by the t-test and FCER1A, which is only found by the other two appraoches, all marker genes are recovered in all approaches.

Louvain Group Markers Cell Type
0 IL7R CD4 T cells
1 CD14, LYZ CD14+ Monocytes
2 MS4A1 B cells
3 GNLY, NKG7 NK cells
4 FCGR3A, MS4A7 FCGR3A+ Monocytes
5 CD8A CD8 T cells
6 MS4A1 B cells

Let us also define a list of marker genes for later reference.

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marker_genes = ['IL7R', 'CD79A', 'MS4A1', 'CD8A', 'CD8B', 'LYZ', 'CD14',
                'LGALS3', 'S100A8', 'GNLY', 'NKG7', 'KLRB1',  
                'FCGR3A', 'MS4A7', 'FCER1A', 'CST3', 'PPBP']

Reload the object that has been save with the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test result.

Show the 10 top ranked genes per cluster 0, 1, ..., 7 in a dataframe.

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pd.DataFrame(adata.uns['rank_genes_groups']['names']).head(5)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 S100A8 IL7R RPL32 IGHD NKG7 CST3 KLRB1 CD79A
1 S100A9 IL32 RPS12 IGHM CTSW HLA-DPA1 KLRG1 IGKC
2 VCAN TRAC RPL30 CD37 GZMA NPC2 NKG7 CD79B
3 S100A12 LDHB RPL35A CD79A CST7 HLA-DPB1 IL32 BANK1
4 FOS BCL11B RPS15A MS4A1 GZMM FCER1G GZMA TNFRSF13C

Get a table with the scores and groups.

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result = adata.uns['rank_genes_groups']
groups = result['names'].dtype.names
pd.DataFrame(
    {group + '_' + key[:1]: result[key][group]
    for group in groups for key in ['names', 'pvals']}).head(5)
0_n 0_p 1_n 1_p 2_n 2_p 3_n 3_p 4_n 4_p 5_n 5_p 6_n 6_p 7_n 7_p
0 S100A8 4.325218e-141 IL7R 3.851653e-57 RPL32 7.151780e-62 IGHD 1.303809e-75 NKG7 9.495682e-64 CST3 1.595268e-42 KLRB1 8.274802e-41 CD79A 3.916006e-28
1 S100A9 1.357507e-140 IL32 3.390931e-49 RPS12 4.320062e-61 IGHM 1.624935e-74 CTSW 1.281002e-58 HLA-DPA1 9.721044e-42 KLRG1 1.245774e-34 IGKC 7.115329e-27
2 VCAN 1.698042e-136 TRAC 5.952130e-49 RPL30 2.823714e-59 CD37 1.704719e-73 GZMA 5.700633e-57 NPC2 5.443673e-33 NKG7 7.556990e-32 CD79B 6.053017e-26
3 S100A12 2.736086e-136 LDHB 6.487053e-46 RPL35A 6.098855e-58 CD79A 2.184785e-70 CST7 1.401230e-56 HLA-DPB1 7.522829e-33 IL32 1.135243e-30 BANK1 6.905314e-26
4 FOS 3.264834e-132 BCL11B 4.040622e-42 RPS15A 6.949561e-58 MS4A1 6.806009e-70 GZMM 5.222455e-51 FCER1G 3.106843e-32 GZMA 1.885113e-30 TNFRSF13C 7.946763e-24

Compare to a single cluster. 

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sc.tl.rank_genes_groups(adata, 'louvain', groups=['0'], reference='1', method='wilcoxon')
sc.pl.rank_genes_groups(adata, groups=['0'], n_genes=20)

ranking genes
    finished (0:00:01)

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If we want a more detailed view for a certain group, use sc.pl.rank_genes_groups_violin.

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sc.pl.rank_genes_groups_violin(adata, groups='0', n_genes=8)

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If you want to compare a certain gene across groups, use the following.

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sc.pl.violin(adata, marker_genes, groupby='louvain')

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Actually mark the cell types.

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pd.DataFrame(result["names"]).head(10)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0 S100A8 IL7R RPL32 IGHD NKG7 CST3 KLRB1 CD79A
1 S100A9 IL32 RPS12 IGHM CTSW HLA-DPA1 KLRG1 IGKC
2 VCAN TRAC RPL30 CD37 GZMA NPC2 NKG7 CD79B
3 S100A12 LDHB RPL35A CD79A CST7 HLA-DPB1 IL32 BANK1
4 FOS BCL11B RPS15A MS4A1 GZMM FCER1G GZMA TNFRSF13C
5 MNDA CD3D RPS6 CD74 PRF1 COTL1 CTSW MS4A1
6 LYZ CD3E RPS14 TCL1A HCST AIF1 CCL5 TCF4
7 SRGN CD3G RPS3A CD79B KLRD1 CTSZ IL7R CD74
8 FCN1 TCF7 RPS28 LINC00926 CCL5 HLA-DRA AQP3 HLA-DQA1
9 DUSP1 CD2 RPS27 BCL11A B2M HLA-DRB1 SLC4A10 LINC00926

Recall

Louvain Group Markers Cell Type
0 IL7R CD4 T cells
1 CD14, LYZ CD14+ Monocytes
2 MS4A1 B cells
3 GNLY, NKG7 NK cells
4 FCGR3A, MS4A7 FCGR3A+ Monocytes
5 CD8A CD8 T cells
6 MS4A1 B cells 
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## Map the gene ids to a cluster label
# Each cluster (index in the list) corresponds to a cell type
new_cluster_names = [
                     "CD4 T",
                     "B Cells",
                     "NK",
                     "CD14 Monocytes",
                     "FCGR3A Monocytes",
                     "CD8 T",
                     "B-2",
]

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# Relabel the clusters
# adata.rename_categories('louvain', new_cluster_names)

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sc.pl.umap(adata, color='louvain', legend_loc='on data', title='', frameon=False)

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Now that we annotated the cell types, let us visualize the marker genes.

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ax = sc.pl.dotplot(adata, marker_genes, groupby='louvain')

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There is also a very compact violin plot.

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ax = sc.pl.stacked_violin(adata, marker_genes, groupby='louvain', rotation=90)

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Note that as a result of the analysis the adata object has accumulated several annotations:

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adata

AnnData object with n_obs × n_vars = 1175 × 25953
    obs: 'n_genes', 'percent_mito', 'n_counts', 'louvain'
    var: 'gene_name', 'gene_id', 'n_cells', 'highly_variable', 'means', 'dispersions', 'dispersions_norm', 'mean', 'std'
    uns: 'log1p', 'hvg', 'pca', 'neighbors', 'umap', 'louvain', 'louvain_colors', 'rank_genes_groups'
    obsm: 'X_pca', 'X_umap'
    varm: 'PCs'
    obsp: 'distances', 'connectivities'

If you want to export to "csv", you have the following options:

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# Export single fields of the annotation of observations
# adata.obs[['n_counts', 'louvain_groups']].to_csv(
#     './write/pbmc3k_corrected_louvain_groups.csv')

# Export single columns of the multidimensional annotation
# adata.obsm.to_df()[['X_pca1', 'X_pca2']].to_csv(
#     './write/pbmc3k_corrected_X_pca.csv')

# Or export everything except the data using `.write_csvs`.
# Set `skip_data=False` if you also want to export the data.
# adata.write_csvs(results_file[:-5], )

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# Running time of the notebook
print("{:.2f} minutes".format((time.time()-start_time)/60))

26.77 minutes

Feedback: please report any issues, or submit pull requests for improvements, in the Github repository where this notebook is located.

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