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ArticleGenome biology2025

sCCIgen: a high-fidelity spatially resolved transcriptomics data simulator for cell-cell interaction studies.

Xiaoyu Song, Joselyn C Chavez-Fuentes, Weiping Ma, Weijia Fu, Sujung Crystal Shin, Pei Wang, Guo-Cheng Yuan

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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 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Xiaoyu SongCentre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. song.xiaoyu@duke-nus.edu.sg.
Joselyn C Chavez-FuentesDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Weiping MaDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Weijia FuInstitute for Health Care Delivery Science, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Sujung Crystal ShinDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Pei WangDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Guo-Cheng YuanDepartment of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. guo-cheng.yuan@mssm.edu.

Funding

Towards an integrated analytics solution to creating a spatially-resolved single-cell multi-omics brain atlasRF1MH133703 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI ROUSSOS, PANAGIOTIS, YUAN, GUO-CHENG · 2023 to 2023
$2.6M
Statistical methods for studying cell-cell interactions using spatial transcriptomics for Alzheimer's diseaseR03AG075567 · NIA · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI SONG, XIAOYU · 2022 to 2023
$338k
Ministry of Education - Singapore FY2024-MOET1-0004Ministry of Health -Singapore Duke-NUS Signature Research ProgrammeNIA NIH HHS R03 AG075567NIH HHS R03AG075567NIH HHS RF1MH133703NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH133703
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Abstract

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) facilitates the study of cell-cell interactions within native tissue environments. To support method development and benchmarking, we introduce sCCIgen, a real-data-based simulator that generates high-fidelity synthetic SRT data with known interaction features. sCCIgen preserves transcriptomic and spatial characteristics and provides key interaction features, including cell colocalization, spatial dependence of gene expression, and gene-gene interactions between neighboring cells. It supports input from SRT data, single-cell expression data alone, and unpaired expression and spatial data. sCCIgen is interactive, user-friendly, reproducible, and well-documented for studying cellular interactions and spatial biology.

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Cell CommunicationGene Expression ProfilingSoftwareTranscriptomeHumansSingle-Cell AnalysisCell–cell interactionData simulatorSpatially resolved transcriptomics

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PMID41094512
PMCPMC12522593

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