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However, due to various limitations, this approach lacks sensitivity in detecting weak perturbations and is essentially reliable when studying master regulators such as transcription factors. To overcome the challenge of detecting subtle gRNA induced transcriptomic perturbations and classifying the most responsive cells, we developed a new supervised autoencoder neural network method. Our Sparse supervised autoencoder (SSAE) neural network provides selection of both relevant features (genes) and actual perturbed cells. We applied this method on an in-house single-cell CRISPR-interference-based (CRISPRi) transcriptome screening (CROP-Seq) focusing on a subset of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulated by hypoxia, a condition that promote tumor aggressiveness and drug resistance, in the context of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). 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