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ArticleGenome biology2025

mNSF: multi-sample non-negative spatial factorization.

Yi Wang, Kyla Woyshner, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Genevieve Stein-O'Brien, Loyal A Goff, Kasper D Hansen

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Article in Genome biology, 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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Yi WangDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kyla WoyshnerDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Chaichontat SriworaratDepartment of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Genevieve Stein-O'BrienDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Loyal A GoffDepartment of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kasper D HansenDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. khansen@jhsph.edu.

Funding

Identification of enteric Juvenile Protective Factors and their role in stimulating neurogenesis in the adult and ageing Enteric Nervous SystemR01AG066768 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GOFF, LOYAL ANDREW, KULKARNI, SUBHASH · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
Mapping the single cell state basis of metastasis in space and timeU01CA284090 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Andrew Josef Ewald · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Data Science Tools to Increase Insight in Genomics DataR35GM149323 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Kasper Daniel Hansen · 2023 to 2026
$1.8M
Resolving Spatiotemporal Determinants of Cell Specification in Corticogenesis with Latent Space MethodsR00NS122085 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI STEIN-O'BRIEN, GENEVIEVE LAUREN · 2023 to 2025
$697k
National cancer institute, United States U01CA284090NCI NIH HHS U01 CA284090NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066768NIA NIH HHS R01AG066768NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM149323NIGMS NIH HHS R35GM149323NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS122085NINDS NIH HHS R00NS122085
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Abstract

Analyzing multi-sample spatial transcriptomics data requires accounting for biological variation. We present multi-sample non-negative spatial factorization (mNSF), an alignment-free framework extending single-sample spatial factorization to multi-sample datasets. mNSF incorporates sample-specific spatial correlation modeling and extracts low-dimensional data representations. Through simulations and real data analysis, we demonstrate mNSF's efficacy in identifying true factors, shared anatomical regions, and region-specific biological functions. mNSF's performance is comparable to alignment-based methods when alignment is feasible, while enabling analysis in scenarios where spatial alignment is unfeasible. mNSF shows promise as a robust method for analyzing spatially resolved transcriptomics data across multiple samples.

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Gene Expression ProfilingTranscriptomeAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansSoftwareDimensionality reductionMatrix factorizationMulti-sample analysisSpatial gene expressionSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID40457480
PMCPMC12128389

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