Wu Siyuan, Schmitz Ulf
Computational Biomedicine Lab, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Genome Biol. 2025 Sep 22;26(1):289. doi: 10.1186/s13059-025-03758-5.
Single-cell isoform analysis enables high-resolution characterization of transcript expression, yet analytical frameworks to systematically measure transcriptomic complexity are lacking. Here, we introduce ScIsoX, a computational framework that integrates a novel hierarchical data structure, a suite of complexity metrics, and dedicated visualization tools for isoform-level analysis. ScIsoX supports systematic exploration of global and cell-type-specific isoform expression patterns arising from alternative splicing, revealing multidimensional complexity signatures across diverse datasets-insights often missed by conventional gene-level approaches. We demonstrate the utility of ScIsoX across multiple real-world single-cell isoform sequencing datasets, showcasing its potential as a general framework for transcriptomic complexity analysis.