Fig. 3. UniTVelo correctly identifies differentiation trajectory of human bone marrow development.
a UMAP coordinates of the velocity field shown in streamlines (left) and predicted latent time (right) from UniTVelo. b Estimated RNA velocity field in streamlines by scVelo. c Cd44, Celf2, and Taok3 are selected as examples, illustrating UniTVelo could accurately capture cell states and directionality whilst scVelo failed to capture the relative cell states using almond shape phase portraits. Upper panel: Regression result by scVelo. Lower panel: Inferred cell state by UniTVelo, gray and black line demonstrates part of induction and repression phase of RBF kernel respectively and the black part is used by the model. Red arrows show the correct directionality of cellular dynamics. d Heatmaps of predicted induction and repression gene expressions are resolved along the inferred cell time, showing a clear separation in temporal space. Entities are smoothed spliced counts.