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| license: mit |
| library_name: pyaging |
| tags: |
| - pyaging |
| - aging-clock |
| - biology |
| - transcriptomics |
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| # bitage |
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| Binarized whole-organism C. elegans RNA-seq clock that estimates temporally rescaled biological age; the released linear predictor sums coefficients for genes binarized on plus a 103.55-hour intercept. |
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| | **Predicts** | biological age | |
| | **Species** | Caenorhabditis elegans | |
| | **Tissue** | whole organism | |
| | **Data type** | transcriptomics | |
| | **Model type** | elastic net regression | |
| | **Year** | 2021 | |
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| ## Use with pyaging |
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| ```python |
| import pyaging as pya |
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| pya.pred.predict_age(adata, ["bitage"]) |
| ``` |
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| Browse every clock in the [pyaging Clock Catalogue](https://pyaging.readthedocs.io). |
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| ## Citation |
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| Meyer, David H., and Björn Schumacher. "BiT age: A transcriptome-based aging clock near the theoretical limit of accuracy." Aging Cell 20 (2021): e13320. |
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| https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13320 |
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