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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2024

A multi-view graph contrastive learning framework for deciphering spatially resolved transcriptomics data.

Lei Zhang, Shu Liang, Lin Wan

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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Lei ZhangDepartment of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, No. 4800 Cao'an Road, 201804, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1110-6543
Shu LiangDepartment of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, No. 4800 Cao'an Road, 201804, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9719-1987
Lin WanAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 55 Zhongguancun East Road, 100190, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3511-0512

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2019YFA0709501National Natural Science Foundation of China 12071466Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project 2021SHZDZX0100
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Abstract

Spatially resolved transcriptomics data are being used in a revolutionary way to decipher the spatial pattern of gene expression and the spatial architecture of cell types. Much work has been done to exploit the genomic spatial architectures of cells. Such work is based on the common assumption that gene expression profiles of spatially adjacent spots are more similar than those of more distant spots. However, related work might not consider the nonlocal spatial co-expression dependency, which can better characterize the tissue architectures. Therefore, we propose MuCoST, a Multi-view graph Contrastive learning framework for deciphering complex Spatially resolved Transcriptomic architectures with dual scale structural dependency. To achieve this, we employ spot dependency augmentation by fusing gene expression correlation and spatial location proximity, thereby enabling MuCoST to model both nonlocal spatial co-expression dependency and spatially adjacent dependency. We benchmark MuCoST on four datasets, and we compare it with other state-of-the-art spatial domain identification methods. We demonstrate that MuCoST achieves the highest accuracy on spatial domain identification from various datasets. In particular, MuCoST accurately deciphers subtle biological textures and elaborates the variation of spatially functional patterns.

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Gene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeAlgorithmsComputational BiologyHumansMachine Learninggraph augmentationgraph convolutional networkmulti-view graph contrastive learningnonlocal dependencyspatial domain identificationspatially resolved transcriptomics

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