Project description:Cancer cells display heterogeneous and dynamic states in glioblastoma, but how these malignant states arise and whether they follow a tractable cellular trajectory across tumours is poorly understood. Here, we generate a deep single cell and spatial multi-region atlas of 12 isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type (IDH-wt) primary glioblastomas that integrates transcriptomic, epigenomic and genomic analysis to comprehensively characterise their tumour heterogeneity. This submission contains the Cell Ranger ARC processed outputs from single nuclei joint transcriptome- and chromatin accessibility-sequencing (10x Genomics). We also provide an integrated single nuclei transcriptomics dataset, comprised of malignant and tumour microenvironment cell type annotations.
Project description:The assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) at single-cell level can provide different perspectives of regulatory patterns based on cell type-specific accessible regions. While human genomic elements have been well studied, understanding how nuclear acid sequence regulates the expression of target genes in a genome-wide level in other organisms remains a major challenge. Batch effects, expensive machines are still constraints nowadays to build a cross-species landscape for further analysis, a platform with high throughput and low cost will be extremely required.Here, we constructed a cross-species accessible chromatin landscape by combinatorial-hybridization-based single-cell ATAC-seq, a single-cell ATAC-seq platform with high throughput and signal-noise ratio using fresh nuclei as input.
Project description:Single-cell mRNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies are reshaping the current cell-type classification system. In previous studies, we built the mouse cell atlas (MCA) and human cell landscape (HCL) to catalog all cell types by collecting scRNA-seq data. However, systematically study for zebrafish (Danio rerio), fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and earthworm (Eisenia andrei) are still lacking. Here, we construct the zebrafish, Drosophila and earthworm cell atlas with Microwell-seq protocols, which provides valuable resources for characterization of diverse cell populations of zebrafish, Drosophila and earthworm, and studying difference between vertebrates and Invertebrates at single cell level.
Project description:Cancer cells display heterogeneous and dynamic states in glioblastoma, but how these malignant states arise and whether they follow a tractable cellular trajectory across tumours is poorly understood. Here, we generate a deep single cell and spatial multi-region atlas of 12 isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type (IDH-wt) primary glioblastomas that integrates transcriptomic, epigenomic and genomic analysis to comprehensively characterise their tumour heterogeneity. This submission contains the Space Ranger processed outputs from Visium spatial transcriptomic sequencing (10x Genomics), including paired high-resolution H&E tissue images. We also provide an integrated single cell and spatial dataset across 97 Visium sections, including gene expression, cell state abundances, and histopathological annotations.
Project description:Earthworms enhance plant growth but the precise mechanism by which this occurs is not known. An understanding of the mechanism could potentially support changes in agricultural management reducing fertiliser usage and therefore costs and the carbon footprint of agriculture. We conducted a factorial experiment in which 5 strains of wheat were grown in the presence and absence of earthworms under regular watering and droughted conditions. The different wheat strains all responded in a similar fashion. Plant biomass was greater in the presence of earthworms and under regular watering. The presence of earthworms reduced the impact of drought on plant biomass and also slowed down the rate of drying of the droughted soils. Plant nutrient content (N, P, Si) showed no consistent pattern with treatments but total N, P and Si mirrored plant biomass and decreased in the order earthworm-present watered > earthworm-present droughted > earthworm-absent watered > earthworm-absent droughted. Nutrient availability in the soil, as assessed by chemical extractions showed no consistent pattern with treatments. Differential gene expression of plants was greater between watering treatments than between earthworm treatments. Genes that were differentially expressed between the earthworm treatments predominantly related to plant defences, abiotic stress and control of plant growth though a couple were linked to both nitrogen cycling and stress responses. The soil microbiome of the earthworm-present treatments was more associated with nutrient-rich environments, the promotion of plant growth and the suppression of plant pathogens. Our data suggest that enhanced plant growth was due to changes in the microbiome due to earthworm processing of the soil rather than changes in nutrient availability due to the presence of earthworms.