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ReviewGenome research2021

Advances in spatial transcriptomic data analysis.

Ruben Dries, Jiaji Chen, Natalie Del Rossi, Mohammed Muzamil Khan, Adriana Sistig, Guo-Cheng Yuan

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Review in Genome research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 137 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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137citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ruben DriesDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7650-7754
Jiaji ChenDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
Natalie Del RossiDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.
Mohammed Muzamil KhanDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
Adriana SistigDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.
Guo-Cheng YuanDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2283-4714

Funding

A Spatially Resolved Molecular Atlas of Human EndotheliumU54HL145611 · NHLBI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CAI, LONG, SHENDURE, JAY ASHOK · 2018 to 2021
$4.9M
Spatial genomics single cell analysis of aging brainsR01AG066028 · NIA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CAI, LONG, YUAN, GUO-CHENG · 2019 to 2023
$4.4M
In situ transcriptome profiling in single cellsUG3HL145609 · NHLBI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CAI, LONG, YUAN, GUO-CHENG · 2018 to 2019
$750k
In situ transcriptome profiling in single cellsUH3CA255134 · NCI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CAI, LONG, YUAN, GUO-CHENG · 2020 to 2020
$400k
NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA255134NHLBI NIH HHS U54 HL145611NHLBI NIH HHS UG3 HL145609NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics is a rapidly growing field that promises to comprehensively characterize tissue organization and architecture at the single-cell or subcellular resolution. Such information provides a solid foundation for mechanistic understanding of many biological processes in both health and disease that cannot be obtained by using traditional technologies. The development of computational methods plays important roles in extracting biological signals from raw data. Various approaches have been developed to overcome technology-specific limitations such as spatial resolution, gene coverage, sensitivity, and technical biases. Downstream analysis tools formulate spatial organization and cell-cell communications as quantifiable properties, and provide algorithms to derive such properties. Integrative pipelines further assemble multiple tools in one package, allowing biologists to conveniently analyze data from beginning to end. In this review, we summarize the state of the art of spatial transcriptomic data analysis methods and pipelines, and discuss how they operate on different technological platforms.

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Data AnalysisTranscriptomeAlgorithmsSpatial Analysis

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PMID34599004
PMCPMC8494229

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