# scHiR

Technologies that simultaneously sequence single-cell transcriptome and 3D genome already yield paired measurements from the same cell, but the two modalities differ sharply in noise, scale and biological meaning, and were previously analyzed separately with latent spaces that need not align. scHiR maps gene expression and chromatin contact matrices into one hyperspherical latent space through modality-specific encoders and reconstructs both signals. On paired data from HiRES, GAGE-seq and LiMCA, the joint embedding matched or exceeded single-omics methods in clustering, and on mouse main olfactory epithelium it raised the Spearman correlation between pseudotime and developmental stage from 0.357 and 0.205 for single-omics embeddings to 0.517.

Technologies that simultaneously sequence single-cell transcriptome and 3D genome already yield paired measurements from the same cell, but the two modalities differ sharply in noise, scale and biological meaning, and were previously analyzed separately with latent spaces that need not align. scHiR maps gene expression and chromatin contact matrices into one hyperspherical latent space through modality-specific encoders and reconstructs both signals. On paired data from HiRES, GAGE-seq and LiMCA, the joint embedding matched or exceeded single-omics methods in clustering, and on mouse main olfactory epithelium it raised the Spearman correlation between pseudotime and developmental stage from 0.357 and 0.205 for single-omics embeddings to 0.517.