The invention belongs to the field of
bioinformatics, and relates to a single
cell trajectory
inference method based on adaptive
feature selection. Firstly, an initial
gene expression matrix is obtained through data preprocessing and highly variable
gene screening; secondly, respectively calculating a highly variable
gene score of
gene expression variability and a trajectory importance
score related to a differentiation trajectory by adopting a two-dimensional
evaluation strategy; then, a dynamic weight
fusion mechanism is introduced, the fusion weight of the two types of scores is adjusted in a self-adaptive mode based on performance feedback, and
key genes are highlighted through nonlinear enhancement; then, an intelligent inflection point detection
algorithm is adopted to adaptively determine the optimal feature number; and finally, reconstructing a variational auto-
encoder model based on the feature subset to carry out trajectory
inference, and forming a performance-driven
feature selection closed loop through multi-round iterative optimization. According to the method, high-precision and self-adaptive single
cell trajectory
inference is realized, and the technical problems of single
feature selection and fixed weight of a traditional method are solved.