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ReviewSmall methods2025

Integrating Spatially-Resolved Transcriptomics Data Across Tissues and Individuals: Challenges and Opportunities.

Boyi Guo, Wodan Ling, Sang Ho Kwon, Pratibha Panwar, Shila Ghazanfar, Keri Martinowich, Stephanie C Hicks

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Review in Small methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Advances in Spatial Transcriptomics in Bone.Current osteoporosis reports · 2026
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  6. Computer Vision Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics: A Survey.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  9. POPARI: Modeling multisample variation in spatial transcriptomics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Boyi GuoDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2950-2349
Wodan LingDivision of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7196-8543
Sang Ho KwonLieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5328-0956
Pratibha PanwarSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7437-7084
Shila GhazanfarSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7861-6997
Keri MartinowichLieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5237-0789
Stephanie C HicksDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7858-0231

Funding

Laminar dissection of cortical human brain gene expression in neuropsychiatric disordersR01MH126393 · NIMH · LIEBER INSTITUTE, INC. · PI MARTINOWICH, KERI · 2021 to 2025
$3.9M
Statistical Methods for Enhanced Mapping of Microbiome RelationshipsR01GM151301 · NIGMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER · PI MICHAEL Chiao-An WU · 2023 to 2026
$1.2M
Robust Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Microbiome StudiesR01GM155734 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Wodan Ling · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
Australian Government 2022-249319Australian Research Council DE220100964NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM151301NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM151301NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM155734NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM155734NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126393NIMH NIH HHS R01MH126393Silicon Valley Community Foundation DAF2023-323340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in spatially-resolved transcriptomics (SRT) technologies have propelled the development of new computational analysis methods to unlock biological insights. The lowering cost of SRT data generation presents an unprecedented opportunity to create large-scale spatial atlases and enable population-level investigation, integrating SRT data across multiple tissues, individuals, species, or phenotypes. Here, unique challenges are described in the SRT data integration, where the analytic impact of varying spatial and biological resolutions is characterized and explored. A succinct review of spatially-aware integration methods and computational strategies is provided. Exciting opportunities to advance computational algorithms amenable to atlas-scale datasets along with standardized preprocessing methods, leading to improved sensitivity and reproducibility in the future are further highlighted.

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Computational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansReproducibility of Resultsintegrative analysismulti‐samplepopulation‐levelspatial alignmentspatially‐resolved transcriptomicsspatial registration

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PMID39935130
PMCPMC12103234

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