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However, identifying unique regulatory associations observed only in specific cell types or conditions remains a key challenge; this is particularly so for rare transcriptional states whose sample sizes are too small for existing gene regulatory network inference methods to be effective.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We present ShareNet, a Bayesian framework for boosting the accuracy of cell type-specific gene regulatory networks by propagating information across related cell types via an information sharing structure that is adaptively optimized for a given single-cell dataset. The techniques we introduce can be used with a range of general network inference algorithms to enhance the output for each cell type. We demonstrate the enhanced accuracy of our approach on three benchmark scRNA-seq datasets. We find that our inferred cell type-specific networks also uncover key changes in gene associations that underpin the complex rewiring of regulatory networks across cell types, tissues and dynamic biological processes. Our work presents a path toward extracting deeper insights about cell type-specific gene regulation in the rapidly growing compendium of scRNA-seq datasets.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The code for ShareNet is available at http:\/\/sharenet.csail.mit.edu and https:\/\/github.com\/alexw16\/sharenet.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btab269","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,3]],"date-time":"2021-05-03T19:46:46Z","timestamp":1620071206000},"page":"i349-i357","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Bayesian information sharing enhances detection of regulatory associations in rare cell types"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Alexander P","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Champaign, IL 61801, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2724-7228","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bonnie","family":"Berger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA"},{"name":"Department of Mathematics, MIT , Cambridge, MA 02139, USA"},{"name":"Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge, MA 02142, USA"}]},{"given":"Hyunghoon","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard , Cambridge, MA 02142, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062410172390300_btab269-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11878","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0901910106","article-title":"Recovering time-varying networks of dependencies in social and biological studies","volume":"106","author":"Ahmed","year":"2009","journal-title":"Proc. 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