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Navigating the data processing for cytometry-based single-cell proteomics

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Huaicheng Sun
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Yuan Zhou
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Ruoyu Jiang
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Yuxuan Liu
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Chengbin Gu
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Ziqi Pan
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Minjie Mou
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Xichen Lian
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Bohan Chen
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Tianle Niu
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Ying Zhang
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Yintao Zhang
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Baoliang Zhang
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Xiuna Sun
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Hao Yang
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Xin Shen
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Yangbo Dai
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J Deng
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Si-Qi Liu
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张阳 (Yang Zhang)
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Mang Xiao
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Wanqing Xie
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Qingxia Yang
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Tingting Fu *
朱峰 (Feng Zhu) *
DOI:10.1038/s41596-025-01257-2delete
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Cytometry-based single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a powerful technique that greatly advances our understanding of complex biological systems with a new level of granularity. Various methods have been developed to process cytometry-based SCP data. However, it remains extremely challenging to identify the well-performing processing workflows for specific datasets. Here, we develop ANPELA, an out-of-the-box method for navigating the proteomic data processing based on large-scale screening. It enables a comparison among the performances of thousands of the processing workflows in identifying cell subpopulations and inferring pseudo-time trajectories based on machine learning. Several cases are then analyzed, highlighting its ability to identify the optimal ways of data processing for cytometry-based SCP studies. A new package is also deployed to ensure multiscenario usability (such as desktop software, R package and online server), data security (enabling local and open-source execution) and a user-friendly interface (realizing interactive and visualizable applications). Overall, ANPELA can be utilized by a broad audience, including those without coding skills, and is freely accessible and downloadable at https://idrblab.org/anpela/ . Its execution time may range from minutes to hours depending on the size of the analyzed data. ANPELA is a software package to compare and assess the performance of different workflows for processing single-cell proteomic data, ensuring the user selects the most appropriate processing workflow for their experimental design question.

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