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How robust is integration to genuine biological differences across batches?

TBtbecker· 8 days ago

Anchor-based integration is great for removing technical batch effects, but my worry is over-correction: if two batches really do differ biologically (different conditions), aggressive alignment can erase the signal you care about. How do people sanity-check that integration removed technical variance without flattening biological variance?

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HChcole8 days ago

We usually hold out known biological markers and check they're still separable after integration, and compare integrated vs un-integrated UMAPs for collapsed structure. If a condition-specific population disappears post-integration, that's a red flag.