Table 1(continued)Tool
Description
Requirements
Type
Interface
Operatingsystem
Programinglanguages References
switchde
An R package for detecting
switch-like differentialexpression along single-cellRNA-seq trajectories.Switchde assumes genesfollow a sigmoidal pattern ofgene expression and tests fordifferential expression using alikelihood ratio test. It alsoreturns maximum likelihoodestimates (MLE) for thesigmoid parameters, whichallows filtering of genes forup- or downregulation as wellas where along the trajectorythe regulation occurs
switchde accepts either an
SCESet from Scater [
110
]ora
matrix of gene expressionmeasurements. These shouldideally be in log(TPM + 1)form, but any loggednonnegative expressionmeasurements will work
Package
Command
line
Unix/
Linux,Mac OS,Windows
R[
111
]
Ouija
A statistical framework for
learning pseudotimes fromsingle-cell RNA-seq data.Ouija using only small panelsof marker genes and priorknowledge of gene behavior
Uses Bayesian hierarchical
nonlinear factor analysis asimplemented in theprobabilistic programminglanguage Stan
Package
Command
line
Unix/
Linux,Mac OS,Windows
R[
112
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348 Yungang Xu and Xiaobo Zhou