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ArticleNature communications2025

High-resolution mapping of single cells in spatial context.

Jincan Ke, Jian Xu, Jia Liu, Yumeng Yang, Chenkai Guo, Bingbing Xie, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng, Shengbao Suo

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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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9 authors.

Jincan KeCenter for Cell Lineage Technology and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-157X
Jian XuGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
Jia LiuGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
Yumeng YangGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
Chenkai GuoCenter for Cell Lineage Technology and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Bingbing XieGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.
Guizhong CuiGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6394-2773
Guangdun PengCenter for Cell Lineage Technology and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China. peng_guangdun@gibh.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8586-0637
Shengbao SuoGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, China. suo_shengbao@gzlab.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8943-2956

Funding

Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Medical College) GZNL2024B01004Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2024YFC3405602Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2024YFF0509000National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32270854, 32161160322National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32370972Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Guangdong Natural Science Foundation) 2024B1515020052, 2023A1515011783Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Guangdong Natural Science Foundation) 2024B1515040020, 2019B151502054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies have emerged as pivotal tools for elucidating molecular regulation and cellular interplay within the intricate tissue microenvironment, but hampered by insufficient gene recovery or challenges in achieving intact single-cell resolution. Here, we develop Cellular Mapping of Attributes with Position (CMAP), a method that efficiently maps large-scale individual cells to their precise spatial locations by integrating single-cell and spatial data through a divide--and--conquer strategy. Analysis of both simulated and real datasets shows that CMAP performs effectively and is adaptable across diverse data types and sequencing platforms. Particularly, CMAP handles scenarios well where discrepancies exist between single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. Our findings underscore CMAP's capacity to endow single-cells with exact spatial coordinates, facilitating the dissection of nuanced spatial-organ-specific endothelial cell heterogeneity, as well as the intricate cancer immune microenvironments that elude conventional single-cell or spatial data analysis.

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Single-Cell AnalysisAnimalsEndothelial CellsGene Expression ProfilingHumansMiceTranscriptomeTumor Microenvironment

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