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ArticleNature biotechnology2024

Integration of spatial and single-cell data across modalities with weakly linked features.

Shuxiao Chen, Bokai Zhu, Sijia Huang, John W Hickey, Kevin Z Lin, Michael Snyder, William J Greenleaf, Garry P Nolan, Nancy R Zhang, Zongming Ma

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Shuxiao Chen *Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9028-1624
Bokai Zhu *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Sijia HuangDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
John W HickeyDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Kevin Z LinDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1236-9847
Michael SnyderDepartment of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-7987
William J GreenleafDepartment of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1409-3095
Garry P NolanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. gnolan@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8862-9043
Nancy R ZhangDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. nzh@wharton.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0880-5749
Zongming MaDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. zongming.ma@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2401-0177
Stanford University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USStanford Medicine · USUniversity of Washington · USWilliam P. Wharton Trust · USYale University · US

Funding

Using a tonsil organoid system to probe conditions for the induction of protective antibody and T cell responses to influenza.U19AI057229 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Mark Morris Davis · 2003 to 2026
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Data Analysis UnitU2CCA233285 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI HUNGER, STEPHEN PATRICK, TAN, KAI · 2018 to 2023
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Stanford Tissue Mapping CenterU54HG010426 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI NOLAN, GARRY P, SNYDER, MICHAEL P. · 2018 to 2021
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Statistical Models for Genome Sequencing and AssociationR01HG006137 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JI, HANLEE P, ZHANG, NANCY R · 2011 to 2022
$4.3M
Cancer-Translational Nanotechnology Training Program (Cancer-TNT)T32CA196585 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W, RAO, JIANGHONG · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Multiomic single cell and spatial interrogation of mechanisms in cellular adaptation to stressR01GM149671 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Sydney Shaffer, Nancy R Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Statistical Methods for Single-Cell TranscriptomicsR01GM125301 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LI, MINGYAO, ZHANG, NANCY R · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
K-mer indexing for pan-genome reference annotationU01HG010963 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI JI, HANLEE P, WEISSMAN, TSACHY · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
NHLBI PROTEOMICS INITIATIVE-N01HV28183N01HV028183 · HV · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI NOLAN, GARRY P · 2002 to 2006
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PLATELET INTERACTIONS WITH FIBRINOGEN AND CALCIUMR01HL028183 · NHLBI · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI PEERSCHKE, ELLINOR I · 1985 to 1992
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although single-cell and spatial sequencing methods enable simultaneous measurement of more than one biological modality, no technology can capture all modalities within the same cell. For current data integration methods, the feasibility of cross-modal integration relies on the existence of highly correlated, a priori 'linked' features. We describe matching X-modality via fuzzy smoothed embedding (MaxFuse), a cross-modal data integration method that, through iterative coembedding, data smoothing and cell matching, uses all information in each modality to obtain high-quality integration even when features are weakly linked. MaxFuse is modality-agnostic and demonstrates high robustness and accuracy in the weak linkage scenario, achieving 20~70% relative improvement over existing methods under key evaluation metrics on benchmarking datasets. A prototypical example of weak linkage is the integration of spatial proteomic data with single-cell sequencing data. On two example analyses of this type, MaxFuse enabled the spatial consolidation of proteomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic information at single-cell resolution on the same tissue section.

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Single-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsAnimalsComputational BiologyHumansMiceProteomicsTranscriptome

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