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Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
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- PhysiologyObesityPeer-reviewed10 citations
- BioinformaticsLife MetabolismPeer-reviewed
Optimized upstream analytical workflow for single-nucleus transcriptomics in main metabolic tissues
Pengwei Dong, Shitong Ding, Guanlin Wang
The paper introduces an optimized snRNA-seq workflow for metabolic tissues, emphasizing ambient RNA removal, doublet detection, and data integration to improve analysis accuracy.
- BioinformaticsGenome ResearchPeer-reviewed
Integrating short-read and long-read single-cell RNA sequencing for comprehensive transcriptome profiling in mouse retina
Meng Wang, Yumei Li, Jun Wang…·Rui Chen
The paper compares short-read and long-read single-cell RNA sequencing in mouse retina, identifying 44,325 transcript isoforms, 38% previously uncharacterized.
- BioinformaticsCell SystemsPeer-reviewed
SpaGRN: investigating spatially informed regulatory paths for spatially resolved transcriptomics data
Yao Li, Xiaobin Liu, Lidong Guo…·Mengyang Xu
SpaGRN predicts spatially informed gene regulatory networks from spatial transcriptomics data, revealing spatiotemporal regulatory patterns in Drosophila development.
20 citationstop 3% - GenomicsGenome MedicinePeer-reviewed
STopover captures spatial colocalization and interaction in the tumor microenvironment using topological analysis in spatial transcriptomics data
Sungwoo Bae, Hyekyoung Lee, Kwon Joong Na…·Young Tae Kim
STopover analyzes spatial transcriptomics data to identify cell-cell interactions and colocalization patterns in the tumor microenvironment.
11 citations - BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Identifying similar populations across independent single cell studies without data integration
Óscar González-Velasco, Malte Simon, Rüstem Yilmaz…·Benedikt Brors
The paper introduces CFS, a method to compare cell groups across datasets without integration, identifying conserved astrocyte subpopulations in mouse motor cortex and spinal cord.
- BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Immunopipe: A comprehensive and flexible scRNA-seq and scTCR-seq data analysis pipeline
Panwen Wang, Yue Yu, Haidong Dong…·Ying Li
Immunopipe provides a flexible pipeline for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and scTCR-seq data to enhance understanding of T-cell immunity and immunotherapy.
- BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
SciGeneX: Enhancing transcriptional analysis through gene module detection in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data.
Julie Bavais, Jessica Chevallier, Lionel Spinelli…·Denis Puthier
SciGeneX detects gene modules in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data to reveal cell populations, outperforming existing methods and uncovering rare cell types in human thymus data.
- BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Fast analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics (FaST): an ultra lightweight and fast pipeline for the analysis of high resolution spatial transcriptomics.
FaST is a fast, lightweight pipeline for analyzing high-resolution spatial transcriptomics data from Illumina flow cells, enabling rapid processing of large datasets without requiring imaging procedures.
- BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
SOAPy: a Python package to dissect spatial architecture, dynamics and communication
Heqi Wang, Jiarong Li, Siyu Jing…·Hong Li
SOAPy is a Python package that analyzes spatial omics data to study spatial architecture, dynamics, and communication across various biological contexts.
- BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Ocelli: an open-source tool for the visualization of developmental multimodal single-cell data
Piotr Rutkowski, Marcin Tabaka
Ocelli is a Python tool for visualizing developmental multimodal single-cell data using diffusion-based modeling, improving computational efficiency and low-dimensional representation quality.
2 citations - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
PyEvoCell: An LLM- Augmented Single Cell Trajectory Analysis Dashboard
Sachin Mathur, Mathieu Beauvais, Arnau Giribet…·Peyman Passban
PyEvoCell uses an LLM to aid in interpreting single-cell trajectory analysis by suggesting lineages, performing differential expression analysis, and validating hypotheses with PubMed citations.
4 citations - Cell BiologyBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
scMUSCL: Multi-Source Transfer Learning for Clustering scRNA-seq Data
Arash Khoeini, Funda Sar, Yen‐Yi Lin…·Martin Ester
scMUSCL improves scRNA-seq clustering by transferring knowledge from multiple annotated datasets without requiring batch correction or prior cluster number knowledge.
2 citations - BioengineeringNature BiotechnologyPeer-reviewed
Volumetric imaging of an intact organism by a distributed molecular network
Nianchao Qian, Joshua A. Weinstein
The paper develops a 3D imaging technique using DNA microscopy to map transcriptomes, genotypes, and morphologies in zebrafish embryos.
23 citationstop 4% - BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Benchmarking algorithms for spatially variable gene identification in spatial transcriptomics
Xuanwei Chen, Qinghua Ran, Junjie Tang…·Ruibin Xi
This paper benchmarks algorithms for identifying spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomics using synthesized and real-world datasets to evaluate their effectiveness and application scenarios.
19 citationstop 3% - BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
Clonal expansion dictates the efficacy of mitochondrial lineage tracing in single cells
Xin Wang, Kun Wang, Weixing Zhang…·Zheng Hu
The paper investigates the reliability of mitochondrial DNA variants as lineage markers, finding that most are pre-existing heteroplasmy rather than de novo mutations, and introduces a score to identify reliable markers.
- BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
CytoSimplex: Visualizing Single-cell Fates and Transitions on a Simplex
Jialin Liu, Yichen Wang, Chen Li…·Joshua Welch
CytoSimplex visualizes cell differentiation trajectories using simplex geometry to represent cell fate commitment and potential in 2D and 3D plots.
3 citations - BioinformaticsNucleic Acids ResearchPeer-reviewed
CellPie: a scalable spatial transcriptomics factor discovery method via joint non-negative matrix factorization
Sokratia Georgaka, William Geraint Morgans, Qian Zhao…·Magnus Rattray
CellPie is a fast, unsupervised method for factor discovery in spatial transcriptomics using joint non-negative matrix factorization, showing improved performance on human cancer datasets.
13 citations - BioinformaticsCytometry Part APeer-reviewed
TimeFlow: a density-driven pseudotime method for flowcytometry data analysis
Margarita Liarou, Thomas Matthes, Stéphane Marchand‐Maillet
TimeFlow computes pseudotime for flow cytometry data by tracking density changes on a graph, showing good performance across patients and cell states.
2 citations - Genetic & Genomic MedicineNaturePeer-reviewed
Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits
Liyang Song, Wenhao Chen, Junren Hou…·Jian Yang
The paper introduces gsMap, a method that maps disease-relevant cells to human complex traits using spatial transcriptomics and GWAS data, revealing spatial patterns of schizophrenia and depression-associated glutamatergic neurons.
132 citationstop 1% - BioinformaticsPLoS GeneticsPeer-reviewed
Mouse-Geneformer: A Deep Learning Model for Mouse Single-Cell Transcriptome and Its Cross-Species Utility
Keita Ito, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Shuji Shigenobu…·Takayoshi Yamashita
This paper develops mouse-Geneformer, a deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptomes, showing cross-species utility for human data and disease modeling.
- Developmental BiologyeLifePeer-reviewed
Spatial transcriptomics in the adult Drosophila brain and body
Jasper Janssens, Pierre J.J. Mangeol, Nikolai Hecker…·Frank Schnorrer
The paper applies spatial transcriptomics to the adult Drosophila brain and body to map mRNA locations and integrate with single-cell data.
- GeneticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Perturbation-driven transcriptional heterogeneity impacts cell fitness
Mariona Nadal‐Ribelles, Carme Solé, Anna Díez-Villanueva…·Francesc Posas
The paper maps cellular states in yeast using a single-cell transcriptome atlas generated from genetic perturbations and identifies regulators of transcriptional heterogeneity.
- BioinformaticsIEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
scDILT: a model-based and constrained deep learning framework for single-cell Data Integration, Label Transferring, and clustering
Xiang Lin, Jianlan Ren, Le Gao…·Junwen Wang
scDILT integrates single-cell datasets while preserving reference clustering patterns and mapping new cells to annotated clusters, outperforming existing methods on simulated and real data.
DOI 10.1109/tcbbio.2025.3553068 - BioinformaticsNAR Genomics and BioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Studying relative RNA localization. From nucleus to the cytosol.
Vasilis F. Ntasis, Roderic Guigó
The paper introduces a method to estimate the relative localization of transcripts between the nucleus and cytosol using combined nuclear, cytosolic, and whole-cell RNA-seq data.
DOI 10.1093/nargab/lqaf032 - BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
Multi-task benchmarking of spatially resolved gene expression simulation models
Xiaoqi Liang, Marni Torkel, Yue Cao, Jean Yee Hwa Yang
The paper benchmarks spatially resolved gene expression simulation models using a framework that evaluates 13 methods across 10 datasets and 35 metrics, highlighting performance differences and factors affecting model accuracy.
- GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewed
A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics
Adrien Hallou, Ruiyang He, Benjamin D. Simons, Bianca Dumitrascu
The paper develops a computational framework to jointly analyze transcriptional and mechanical signals in spatial transcriptomics data from mouse embryos, identifying predictive signatures of tissue compartment boundaries.
37 citationstop 1% - GenomicsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
A single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the COVID-19 liver reveals topological, functional, and regenerative organ disruption in patients
Yered H. Pita-Juárez, Dimitra Karagkouni, Nikolaos Kalavros…·Ioannis S. Vlachos
This study creates a single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the COVID-19 liver, revealing cellular and functional disruptions associated with organ damage.
- BioinformaticsGenome MedicinePeer-reviewed
MuCST: restoring and integrating heterogeneous morphology images and spatial transcriptomics data with contrastive learning
MuCST integrates heterogeneous morphology images and spatial transcriptomics data using contrastive learning, identifying tissue subpopulations and tumor domains with high accuracy.
9 citations