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ArticleGenome biology2023

ENGEP: advancing spatial transcriptomics with accurate unmeasured gene expression prediction.

Shi-Tong Yang, Xiao-Fei Zhang

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Article in Genome biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  5. Enhancing Spatial Transcriptomics via Spatially Constrained Matrix Decomposition with EDGES.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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Shi-Tong YangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
Xiao-Fei ZhangSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. zhangxf@ccnu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-5052-9725

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 12271198, 11871026
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics techniques provide valuable spatial and gene expression information at single-cell resolution. However, their current capability is restricted to profiling a limited number of genes per sample, resulting in most of the transcriptome remaining unmeasured. To overcome this challenge, we develop ENGEP, an ensemble learning-based tool that predicts unmeasured gene expression in spatial transcriptomics data by using multiple single-cell RNA sequencing datasets as references. ENGEP outperforms current state-of-the-art tools and brings biological insight by accurately predicting unmeasured genes. ENGEP has exceptional efficiency in terms of runtime and memory usage, making it scalable for analyzing large datasets.

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Gene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeLearningSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisGene expression predictionscRNA-seqSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID38129866
PMCPMC10734203

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