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ReviewNature biotechnology2022

Spatial components of molecular tissue biology.

Giovanni Palla, David S Fischer, Aviv Regev, Fabian J Theis

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Review in Nature biotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 193 papers.

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193citing papers in PubMed
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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

193 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Giovanni Palla *Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-4462
David S Fischer *Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1293-7656
Aviv RegevKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. aviv.regev.sc@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-3158
Fabian J TheisInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany. fabian.theis@helmholtz-muenchen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2419-1943

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methods for profiling RNA and protein expression in a spatially resolved manner are rapidly evolving, making it possible to comprehensively characterize cells and tissues in health and disease. To maximize the biological insights obtained using these techniques, it is critical to both clearly articulate the key biological questions in spatial analysis of tissues and develop the requisite computational tools to address them. Developers of analytical tools need to decide on the intrinsic molecular features of each cell that need to be considered, and how cell shape and morphological features are incorporated into the analysis. Also, optimal ways to compare different tissue samples at various length scales are still being sought. Grouping these biological problems and related computational algorithms into classes across length scales, thus characterizing common issues that need to be addressed, will facilitate further progress in spatial transcriptomics and proteomics.

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ProteomicsTranscriptomeAlgorithmsComputational BiologySpatial Analysis

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