The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

The dawn of spatial omics

D Bressan, G Battistoni, GJ Hannon - Science, 2023 - science.org
Spatial omics has been widely heralded as the new frontier in life sciences. This term
encompasses a wide range of techniques that promise to transform many areas of biology …

Comparison of methods and resources for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell RNA-Seq data

D Dimitrov, D Türei, M Garrido-Rodriguez… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The growing availability of single-cell data, especially transcriptomics, has sparked an
increased interest in the inference of cell-cell communication. Many computational tools …

Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution

B Li, W Zhang, C Guo, H Xu, L Li, M Fang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics approaches have substantially advanced our capacity to detect the
spatial distribution of RNA transcripts in tissues, yet it remains challenging to characterize …

Spatial components of molecular tissue biology

G Palla, DS Fischer, A Regev, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for profiling RNA and protein expression in a spatially resolved manner are rapidly
evolving, making it possible to comprehensively characterize cells and tissues in health and …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

High-resolution alignment of single-cell and spatial transcriptomes with CytoSPACE

MR Vahid, EL Brown, CB Steen, W Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of single-cell spatial biology, yet available
assays for spatial transcriptomics have limited gene recovery or low spatial resolution. Here …

Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays

A Chen, S Liao, M Cheng, K Ma, L Wu, Y Lai, X Qiu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies are promising tools to study complex
biological processes such as mammalian embryogenesis. However, the imbalance between …

Modeling intercellular communication in tissues using spatial graphs of cells

DS Fischer, AC Schaar, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Models of intercellular communication in tissues are based on molecular profiles of
dissociated cells, are limited to receptor–ligand signaling and ignore spatial proximity in situ …

Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis

G Palla, H Spitzer, M Klein, D Fischer, AC Schaar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial omics data are advancing the study of tissue organization and cellular
communication at an unprecedented scale. Flexible tools are required to store, integrate and …