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Robust mapping of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell-cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues.

ABSTRACT: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies generate multiple data types from biological samples, namely gene expression, physical distance between data points, and/or tissue morphology. Here we developed three computational-statistical algorithms that integrate all three data types to advance understanding of cellular processes. First, we present a spatial graph-based method, pseudo-time-space (PSTS), to model and uncover relationships between transcriptional states of cells across tissues undergoing dynamic change (e.g. neurodevelopment, brain injury and/or microglia activation, and cancer progression). We further developed a spatially-constrained two-level permutation (SCTP) test to study cell-cell interaction, finding highly interactive tissue regions across thousands of ligand-receptor pairs with markedly reduced false discovery rates. Finally, we present a spatial graph-based imputation method with neural network (stSME), to correct for technical noise/dropout and increase ST data coverage. Together, the algorithms that we developed, implemented in the comprehensive and fast stLearn software, allow for robust interrogation of biological processes within healthy and diseased tissues.

SUBMITTER: Pham D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10676408 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Robust mapping of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell-cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues.

Pham Duy D Tan Xiao X Balderson Brad B Xu Jun J Grice Laura F LF Yoon Sohye S Willis Emily F EF Tran Minh M Lam Pui Yeng PY Raghubar Arti A Kalita-de Croft Priyakshi P Lakhani Sunil S Vukovic Jana J Ruitenberg Marc J MJ Nguyen Quan H QH

Nature communications 20231125 1

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies generate multiple data types from biological samples, namely gene expression, physical distance between data points, and/or tissue morphology. Here we developed three computational-statistical algorithms that integrate all three data types to advance understanding of cellular processes. First, we present a spatial graph-based method, pseudo-time-space (PSTS), to model and uncover relationships between transcriptional states of cells across tissues underg ...[more]

PMID: 38007580

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Robust mapping of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell-cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues.

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Robust mapping of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell-cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues.

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