Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

[HTML][HTML] IOBR: multi-omics immuno-oncology biological research to decode tumor microenvironment and signatures

D Zeng, Z Ye, R Shen, G Yu, J Wu, Y Xiong… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have triggered the
rapid accumulation of publicly available multi-omics datasets. The application of integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking of cell type deconvolution pipelines for transcriptomics data

F Avila Cobos, J Alquicira-Hernandez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many computational methods have been developed to infer cell type proportions from bulk
transcriptomics data. However, an evaluation of the impact of data transformation, pre …

ImmuCellAI: a unique method for comprehensive T‐cell subsets abundance prediction and its application in cancer immunotherapy

YR Miao, Q Zhang, Q Lei, M Luo, GY Xie… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution and abundance of immune cells, particularly T‐cell subsets, play pivotal
roles in cancer immunology and therapy. T cells have many subsets with specific function …

Single-nucleus transcriptomics of the prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder implicates oligodendrocyte precursor cells and excitatory neurons

C Nagy, M Maitra, A Tanti, M Suderman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has an enormous impact on global disease burden,
affecting millions of people worldwide and ranking as a leading cause of disability for almost …

Reference-based analysis of lung single-cell sequencing reveals a transitional profibrotic macrophage

D Aran, AP Looney, L Liu, E Wu, V Fong, A Hsu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tissue fibrosis is a major cause of mortality that results from the deposition of matrix proteins
by an activated mesenchyme. Macrophages accumulate in fibrosis, but the role of specific …

[PDF][PDF] RNA-Seq signatures normalized by mRNA abundance allow absolute deconvolution of human immune cell types

G Monaco, B Lee, W Xu, S Mustafah, YY Hwang… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
The molecular characterization of immune subsets is important for designing effective
strategies to understand and treat diseases. We characterized 29 immune cell types within …

SPOTlight: seeded NMF regression to deconvolute spatial transcriptomics spots with single-cell transcriptomes

M Elosua-Bayes, P Nieto, E Mereu, I Gut… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Spatially resolved gene expression profiles are key to understand tissue organization and
function. However, spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiling techniques lack single-cell …

[HTML][HTML] SpatialDWLS: accurate deconvolution of spatial transcriptomic data

R Dong, GC Yuan - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Recent development of spatial transcriptomic technologies has made it possible to
characterize cellular heterogeneity with spatial information. However, the technology often …