BiocStyle 2.30.0
Single-cell ’omics analysis enables high-resolution characterization of heterogeneous populations of cells by quantifying measurements in individual cells and thus provides a fuller, more nuanced picture into the complexity and heterogeneity between cells. However, the data also present new and significant challenges as compared to previous approaches, especially as single-cell data are much larger and sparser than data generated from bulk sequencing methods. Dimension reduction is a key step in the single-cell analysis to address the high dimension and sparsity of these data, and to enable the application of more complex, computationally expensive downstream pipelines.
Correspondence analysis (CA) is a matrix factorization method, and is similar to
principal components analysis (PCA). Whereas PCA is designed for application to
continuous, approximately normally distributed data, CA is appropriate for
non-negative, count-based data that are in the same additive scale. corral
implements CA for dimensionality reduction of a single matrix of single-cell data.
See the vignette for corralm
for the multi-table adaptation of CA for single-cell batch alignment/integration.
corral can be used with various types of input. When called on a matrix (or other matrix-like object), it returns a list with the SVD output, principal coordinates, and standard coordinates. When called on a SingleCellExperiment, it returns the SingleCellExperiment with the corral embeddings in the reducedDim
slot named corral
. To retrieve the full list output from a SingleCellExperiment
input, the fullout
argument can be set to TRUE
.