Identifying Reversible Molecular Networks in Human Pulmonary Fibrosis Using Single Nuclear Transcriptomics and Systems Biology

Abstract

The goals of this study are to identify aberrant cell compositions and aberrant gene expression profiles in cellular subpopulations in differentially affected regions within the IPF lung, to establish cell-type-specific regulatory networks in the microenvironment of IPF and cell-type-specific pathways of disease progression and to discover cell-type-specific biomarkers of disease progression as well as targets for novel therapeutics. To this end, we identified the optimal nuclei isolation and purification method for single nuclei RNA sequencing and are in the progress of generating the final dataset. We developed an automated computational pipeline for data preprocessing of single nuclei RNA sequencing data. We applied this pipeline to a single transcriptome dataset of samples from cystic fibrosis and controls and published this as the manuscript Single Cell Transcriptional Archetypes of Airway Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1111614

Entities

People

  • Jonas Schupp

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Blood
  • Cardiovascular System
  • Cells
  • Computational Biology
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Gene Expression
  • Genetic Structures
  • Genetics
  • Lung Diseases
  • Lymphocytes
  • Macrophages
  • Medical Personnel
  • Systems Biology
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

Fields of Study

  • Biology

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