Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2018 Dec 3.
doi: 10.1038/nbt.4314. Online ahead of print.

Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP

Affiliations

Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP

Etienne Becht et al. Nat Biotechnol. .

Abstract

Advances in single-cell technologies have enabled high-resolution dissection of tissue composition. Several tools for dimensionality reduction are available to analyze the large number of parameters generated in single-cell studies. Recently, a nonlinear dimensionality-reduction technique, uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP), was developed for the analysis of any type of high-dimensional data. Here we apply it to biological data, using three well-characterized mass cytometry and single-cell RNA sequencing datasets. Comparing the performance of UMAP with five other tools, we find that UMAP provides the fastest run times, highest reproducibility and the most meaningful organization of cell clusters. The work highlights the use of UMAP for improved visualization and interpretation of single-cell data.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment in

Similar articles

Cited by

References

    1. Science. 2000 Dec 22;290(5500):2319-23 - PubMed
    1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 24;102(21):7426-31 - PubMed
    1. Curr Opin Immunol. 2007 Apr;19(2):137-42 - PubMed
    1. Nat Biotechnol. 2013 Jun;31(6):545-52 - PubMed
    1. Cell. 2015 Jul 2;162(1):184-97 - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources

-