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ArticleNature communications2025

DECIPHER for learning disentangled cellular embeddings in large-scale heterogeneous spatial omics data.

Chen-Rui Xia, Zhi-Jie Cao, Ge Gao

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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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  1. Cross-Modal Denoising and Integration of Spatial Multi-Omics Data with CANDIES.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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Chen-Rui Xia *State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Life Sciences, Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Center for Bioinformatics (CBI), Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6008-7669
Zhi-Jie Cao *State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Life Sciences, Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Center for Bioinformatics (CBI), Peking University, Beijing, China. caozj@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-671X
Ge GaoState Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Life Sciences, Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG), Center for Bioinformatics (CBI), Peking University, Beijing, China. gaog@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6470-8815

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The functional role of a cell, shaped by the sophisticated interplay between its molecular identity and spatial context, is often obscured in current spatial modeling. In efforts to model large-scale heterogeneous spatial data in silico effectively and efficiently, we introduce DECIPHER, which disentangles cells' intra-cellular and extra-cellular representation through a novel cross-scale contrast learning strategy. In addition to superior performance over state-of-arts, systematic benchmarks and various real-world case studies showed that the disentangled embeddings produced by DECIPHER enable delineating cell-environment interaction across multiple scales. Of note, DECIPHER is highly scalable, capable of handling spatial atlases with millions of cells which is largely infeasible for existing methods.

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