Do yeast cells dream of metabolic sheep?

Rainer Machné

Below are the medians and 25%/75% quantiles of transcript abundances of the main YRO cohorts in a series of transcriptome time series of the YRO in different conditions and strains.

The right plots show principal component analysis PCA of all genes (colored by the main YRO cohorts) and the first two sample eigenvectors that nicely form a circular pattern that reproduces the sampling time. This property of PCA on gene expression data has been recognized by Alter, Brown, and Botstein (2000) (cf. eigengenes) and e.g. used to interpret YRO data by Li and Klevecz (2006); and was recently adopted to assign positions within the cell division cycle of single cell transcriptome data (Schwabe et al. 2020). We can cluster the first 20 PCA components by k-means to show that each data set shows the same information, i.e., the same temporal program is observed in all experiments.

The same reconstruction of the sampling times can be achieved by running PCA on only the means of YRO cohorts. We will use this property for a scalable method to analyse single cell transcriptome snapshot data from asynchronous cultures in different growth conditions.

machne22pre ( Machné et al. (2021) )

klevecz04 ( Klevecz et al. (2004) )

li06 ( Li and Klevecz (2006) )

tu05 ( Tu et al. (2005) )

slavov11 ( Slavov et al. (2011) )

kuang14 ( Kuang et al. (2014) )

wang15_highD ( Wang et al. (2015) )

wang15_lowD ( Wang et al. (2015) )

nocetti16 ( Nocetti and Whitehouse (2016) )

chin12_2h ( Chin et al. (2012) )

chin12_4h ( Chin et al. (2012) )

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