ScATACseq

In scanpy, there is a function to create a stacked violin plot. There is no such function in Seurat, and many people were asking for this feature. e.g. https://github.com/satijalab/seurat/issues/300 https://github.com/satijalab/seurat/issues/463 The developers have not implemented this feature yet. In this post, I am trying to make a stacked violin plot in Seurat. The idea is to create a violin plot per gene using the VlnPlot in Seurat, then customize the axis text/tick and reduce the margin for each plot and finally concatenate by cowplot::plot_grid or patchwork::wrap_plots.

TSS enrichment score serves as an important quality control metric for ATACseq data. I want to write a script for single cell ATACseq data. From the Encode page: Transcription Start Site (TSS) Enrichment Score - The TSS enrichment calculation is a signal to noise calculation. The reads around a reference set of TSSs are collected to form an aggregate distribution of reads centered on the TSSs and extending to 1000 bp in either direction (for a total of 2000bp).

scATACseq data are very sparse. It is sparser than scRNAseq. To do clustering of scATACseq data, there are some preprocessing steps need to be done. I want to reproduce what has been done after reading the method section of these two recent scATACseq paper: A Single-Cell Atlas of In Vivo Mammalian Chromatin Accessibility Darren et.al Cell 2018 Latent Semantic Indexing Cluster Analysis In order to get an initial sense of the relationship between individual cells, we first broke the genome into 5kb windows and then scored each cell for any insertions in these windows, generating a large, sparse, binary matrix of 5kb windows by cells for each tissue.