ArticleCommunications biology2026
VISTA uncovers missing gene expression and spatial-induced information for spatial transcriptomic data analysis.
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- Accurate prediction in reconstructed spatial transcriptomes does not ensure valid biological discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Enhancing pan-cancer spatial transcriptomics at single-cell resolution with stPainter.Nature communications · 2026Article
- spRefine denoises and imputes spatial transcriptomic data with a reference-free framework powered by genomic language model.Genome research · 2026Article
- SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- spRefine Denoises and Imputes Spatial Transcriptomics with a Reference-Free Framework Powered by Genomic Language Model.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Understanding cell activities in their spatial context is crucial for revealing spatially influenced cellular states. While single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) provides comprehensive gene expression profiles, it lacks spatial resolution. Subcellular spatial transcriptomics (SST) captures spatial information but measures only limited genes. To overcome this problem, we present VISTA, a model that predicts unmeasured gene expression in SST data by integrating scRNA-seq and SST through variational inference and geometric deep learning with uncertainty quantification. Across four datasets, VISTA achieves superior imputation accuracy, scalability, and efficiency. Its accurate imputation supports diverse downstream analyses, including identifying spatially variable genes, uncovering ligand-receptor interactions, inferring spatial RNA velocity, performing in-silico perturbations, and disentangling spatial versus intrinsic expression variations. By bridging comprehensive molecular coverage with spatial precision, VISTA enhances the interpretability and utility of SST data, advancing our understanding of tissue organization and cellular microenvironments.
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