For a quick-start tutorial of MELD in Google CoLab, check out this notebook from our Machine Learning Workshop:
If you're looking for an in-depth tutorial of MELD and VFC, start here:
If you'd like to see how to use MELD without VFC, start here:
MELD is a Python package for quantifying the effects of experimental perturbations. For an in depth explanation of the algorithm, please read the associated article:
The goal of MELD is to identify populations of cells that are most affected by an experimental perturbation. Rather than clustering the data first and calculating differential abundance of samples within clusters, MELD provides a density estimate for each scRNA-seq sample for every cell in each dataset. Comparing the ratio between the density of each sample provides a quantitative estimate the effect of a perturbation at the single-cell level. We can then identify the cells most or least affected by the perturbation.
You can also watch a seminar explaining MELD given by @dburkhardt:
pip install meld
MELD requires Python >= 3.6. All other requirements are installed automatically by pip.
import numpy as np
import meld
# Create toy data
n_samples = 500
n_dimensions = 100
data = np.random.normal(size=(n_samples, n_dimensions))
sample_labels = np.random.choice(['treatment', 'control'], size=n_samples)
# Estimate density of each sample over the graph
sample_densities = meld.MELD().fit_transform(data, sample_labels)
# Normalize densities to calculate sample likelihoods
sample_likelihoods = meld.utils.normalize_densities(sample_densities)