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ArticleNature communications2025

INSTINCT: Multi-sample integration of spatial chromatin accessibility sequencing data via stochastic domain translation.

Yuyao Liu, Zhen Li, Xiaoyang Chen, Xuejian Cui, Zijing Gao, Rui Jiang

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Yuyao Liu *Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-3695-3841
Zhen Li *Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3013-3416
Xiaoyang ChenMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-8129
Xuejian CuiMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-8145-212X
Zijing GaoMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-7269-0244
Rui JiangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. ruijiang@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-3753

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62273194Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (Beijing Natural Science Foundation) L242026
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Abstract

Recent advances in spatial epigenomic techniques have given rise to spatial assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (spATAC-seq) data, enabling the characterization of epigenomic heterogeneity and spatial information simultaneously. Integrative analysis of multiple spATAC-seq samples, for which no method has been developed, allows for effective identification and elimination of unwanted non-biological factors within the data, enabling comprehensive exploration of tissue structures and providing a holistic epigenomic landscape, thereby facilitating the discovery of biological implications and the study of regulatory processes. In this article, we present INSTINCT, a method for multi-sample INtegration of Spatial chromaTIN accessibility sequencing data via stochastiC domain Translation. INSTINCT can efficiently handle the high dimensionality of spATAC-seq data and eliminate the complex noise and batch effects of samples through a stochastic domain translation procedure. We demonstrate the superiority and robustness of INSTINCT in integrating spATAC-seq data across multiple simulated scenarios and real datasets. Additionally, we highlight the advantages of INSTINCT in spatial domain identification, visualization, spot-type annotation, and various downstream analyses, including motif enrichment analysis, expression enrichment analysis, and partitioned heritability analysis.

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ChromatinEpigenomicsSequence Analysis, DNAComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansStochastic ProcessesTransposasesChromatinTransposases

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