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ArticleNature biotechnology2022

Spatial charting of single-cell transcriptomes in tissues.

Runmin Wei, Siyuan He, Shanshan Bai, Emi Sei, Min Hu, Alastair Thompson, Ken Chen, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Nicholas E Navin

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers.

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158citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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158 citing papers in PubMed, 275 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Runmin Wei *Department of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Siyuan He *Department of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Shanshan BaiDepartment of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Emi SeiDepartment of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Min HuDepartment of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Alastair ThompsonDepartment of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Ken ChenDepartment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4013-5279
Savitri KrishnamurthyDepartment of Pathology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Nicholas E NavinDepartment of Genetics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. nnavin@mdanderson.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2106-8624
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Fabien Delerue · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
DELINEATING THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF CHEMORESISTANCE IN BREAST CANCER WITH SINGLE CELL GENOMICSR01CA236864 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI NAVIN, NICHOLAS · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
INVESTIGATING TUMOR INITIATION AND INVASION IN PREMALIGNANT BREAST CANCER WITH SPATIAL SINGLE CELL GENOMICSR01CA240526 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI NAVIN, NICHOLAS · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS R01 CA236864NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240526
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing methods can profile the transcriptomes of single cells but cannot preserve spatial information. Conversely, spatial transcriptomics assays can profile spatial regions in tissue sections, but do not have single-cell resolution. Here, we developed a computational method called CellTrek that combines these two datasets to achieve single-cell spatial mapping through coembedding and metric learning approaches. We benchmarked CellTrek using simulation and in situ hybridization datasets, which demonstrated its accuracy and robustness. We then applied CellTrek to existing mouse brain and kidney datasets and showed that CellTrek can detect topological patterns of different cell types and cell states. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics experiments on two ductal carcinoma in situ tissues and applied CellTrek to identify tumor subclones that were restricted to different ducts, and specific T cell states adjacent to the tumor areas. Our data show that CellTrek can accurately map single cells in diverse tissue types to resolve their spatial organization.

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