Profiling cell identity and tissue architecture with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

GS Gulati, JP D'Silva, Y Liu, L Wang… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has broadened our understanding of cellular diversity and gene
expression dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues. Recently, spatial transcriptomics has …

Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery

B Bonev, CB Gonçalo, F Chen, S Codeluppi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past decade, single-cell genomics technologies have allowed scalable profiling of
cell-type-specific features, which has substantially increased our ability to study cellular …

Integrative spatial analysis reveals a multi-layered organization of glioblastoma

AC Greenwald, NG Darnell, R Hoefflin, D Simkin… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Glioma contains malignant cells in diverse states. Here, we combine spatial transcriptomics,
spatial proteomics, and computational approaches to define glioma cellular states and …

Spatial omics advances for in situ RNA biology

J Ren, S Luo, H Shi, X Wang - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Spatial regulation of RNA plays a critical role in gene expression regulation and cellular
function. Understanding spatially resolved RNA dynamics and translation is vital for bringing …

Benchmarking clustering, alignment, and integration methods for spatial transcriptomics

Y Hu, M Xie, Y Li, M Rao, W Shen, C Luo, H Qin… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is advancing our understanding of complex tissues
and organisms. However, building a robust clustering algorithm to define spatially coherent …

Spatial landmark detection and tissue registration with deep learning

M Ekvall, L Bergenstråhle, A Andersson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial landmarks are crucial in describing histological features between samples or sites,
tracking regions of interest in microscopy, and registering tissue samples within a common …

Categorization of 34 computational methods to detect spatially variable genes from spatially resolved transcriptomics data

G Yan, SH Hua, JJ Li - Nature Communications, 2025 - nature.com
In the analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics data, detecting spatially variable genes
(SVGs) is crucial. Numerous computational methods exist, but varying SVG definitions and …

The 3d revolution in cancer discovery

L Wang, M Li, TH Hwang - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
The transition from 2D to 3D spatial profiling marks a revolutionary era in cancer research,
offering unprecedented potential to enhance cancer diagnosis and treatment. This …

SANTO: a coarse-to-fine alignment and stitching method for spatial omics

H Li, Y Lin, W He, W Han, X Xu, C Xu, E Gao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
With the flourishing of spatial omics technologies, alignment and stitching of slices becomes
indispensable to decipher a holistic view of 3D molecular profile. However, existing …

SEraster: a rasterization preprocessing framework for scalable spatial omics data analysis

G Aihara, K Clifton, M Chen, Z Li, L Atta, BF Miller… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Spatial omics data demand computational analysis but many analysis tools have
computational resource requirements that increase with the number of cells analyzed. This …