Hu Xinlin, Hu Yaohua, Wu Fanjie, Leung Ricky Wai Tak, Qin Jing
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Advanced Machine Learning and Applications, College of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2020 Jun 29;18:1925-1938. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.06.033. eCollection 2020.
The advancement of single-cell sequencing technology in recent years has provided an opportunity to reconstruct gene regulatory networks (GRNs) with the data from thousands of single cells in one sample. This uncovers regulatory interactions in cells and speeds up the discoveries of regulatory mechanisms in diseases and biological processes. Therefore, more methods have been proposed to reconstruct GRNs using single-cell sequencing data. In this review, we introduce technologies for sequencing single-cell genome, transcriptome, and epigenome. At the same time, we present an overview of current GRN reconstruction strategies utilizing different single-cell sequencing data. Bioinformatics tools were grouped by their input data type and mathematical principles for reader's convenience, and the fundamental mathematics inherent in each group will be discussed. Furthermore, the adaptabilities and limitations of these different methods will also be summarized and compared, with the hope to facilitate researchers recognizing the most suitable tools for them.
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