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ArticleNature communications2025

Stereopy: modeling comparative and spatiotemporal cellular heterogeneity via multi-sample spatial transcriptomics.

Shuangsang Fang, Mengyang Xu, Lei Cao, Xiaobin Liu, Marija Bezulj, Liwei Tan, Zhiyuan Yuan, Yao Li, Tianyi Xia, Longyu Guo and 27 more

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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 38 papers.

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37 authors.

Shuangsang Fang *BGI Research, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4126-0074
Mengyang Xu *BGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4487-7088
Lei Cao *BGI Research, Beijing, China.
Xiaobin Liu *BGI Research, Qingdao, China.
Marija Bezulj *BGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Liwei Tan *BGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Zhiyuan Yuan *Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9367-4236
Yao LiBGI Research, Qingdao, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-3249
Tianyi XiaBGI Research, Beijing, China.
Longyu GuoBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Vladimir KovacevicBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-6261
Junhou HuiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Lidong GuoBGI Research, Qingdao, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2520-4416
Chao LiuBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6892-6754
Mengnan ChengBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Li'ang LinBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Zhenbin WenBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Bojana JosicBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Nikola MilicevicBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Ping QiuBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Qin LuBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Yumei LiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Leying WangBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Luni HuBGI Research, Beijing, China.
Chao ZhangBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5162-9568
Qiang KangBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Fengzhen ChenBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.
Ziqing DengBGI Research, Beijing, China.
Junhua LiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6784-1873
Mei LiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3310-2911
Shengkang LiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6864-5644
Yi ZhaoBeijing Key Laboratory of Mobile Computing and Pervasive Device, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. zhaoyi@ict.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6046-8420
Guangyi FanBGI Research, Shenzhen, China. fanguangyi@genomics.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7365-1590
Yong ZhangBGI Research, Shenzhen, China. zhangyong2@genomics.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9950-1793
Ao ChenBGI Research, Shenzhen, China. chenao@genomics.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9699-8340
Yuxiang LiBGI Research, Shenzhen, China. liyuxiang@genomics.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-3692
Xun XuBGI Research, Wuhan, China. xuxun@genomics.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-5173

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32100514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding complex biological systems requires tracing cellular dynamic changes across conditions, time, and space. However, integrating multi-sample data in a unified way to explore cellular heterogeneity remains challenging. Here, we present Stereopy, a flexible framework for modeling and dissecting comparative and spatiotemporal patterns in multi-sample spatial transcriptomics with interactive data visualization. To optimize this framework, we devise a universal container, a scope controller, and an integrative transformer tailored for multi-sample multimodal data storage, management, and processing. Stereopy showcases three representative applications: investigating specific cell communities and genes responsible for pathological changes, detecting spatiotemporal gene patterns by considering spatial and temporal features, and inferring three-dimensional niche-based cell-gene interaction network that bridges intercellular communications and intracellular regulations. Stereopy serves as both a comprehensive bioinformatics toolbox and an extensible framework that empowers researchers with enhanced data interpretation abilities and new perspectives for mining multi-sample spatial transcriptomics data.

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Computational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingSoftwareTranscriptomeGene Regulatory NetworksHumansSpatio-Temporal Analysis

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PMID40258830
PMCPMC12012134

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