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We specify a pre-registered protocol for Do Harmony, Scanorama, and scVI, applied to the same 10x Genomics PBMC 10k reference with an identical QC pipeline and a locked marker-gene reference, produce concordant cell-type labels at the top cluster level, and if not, at what fraction of cells do pairs disagree? using 10x Genomics PBMC 10k public dataset (combined from multiple publicly-released 10x PBMC runs), accessed via scanpy.

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized our understanding of cellular heterogeneity and transcriptomic landscapes. In this study, we systematically compared five dimensionality reduction methods (PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, Diffusion Maps, VAE/scVI) combined with four clustering algorithms (Louvain, Leiden, K-means, Hierarchical Clustering) across three gold-standard benchmark datasets (PBMC 3k, mouse brain cortex, human pancreatic islets).