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ArticleiScience2026

Constructing the spatiotemporal atlas of single-cell lineage trajectories in stereotypic biological structures.

Ran Wang, Xianfa Yang, Chengfei Lian, Jianjie Wang, Jiehui Chen, Yun Qian, Yaochen Xu, Liantang Wang, John C Marioni, Patrick P L Tam and 1 more

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Ran WangKey Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
Xianfa YangGuangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou 510005, China.
Chengfei LianKey Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
Jianjie WangKey Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Biomedical Informatics & Genomics Center, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
Jiehui ChenState Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
Yun QianState Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
Yaochen XuState Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
Liantang WangSchool of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China.
John C MarioniCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK.
Patrick P L TamEmbryology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Naihe JingState Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.

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Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics technologies have emerged as instrumental tools for elucidating cellular heterogeneity and molecular regulation within the complex tissue microenvironment, but are constrained by insufficient gene recovery or an inability to achieve intact single-cell resolution. By integrating spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, we develop a mathematical method of single-cell resolved spatiotemporal (SCST) mapping that comprises tiered algorithms for constructing the spatial molecular atlas of the biospecimen at single-cell resolution across a timeline of development. The embedded spatial-smoothing algorithm in SCST significantly enhances the spatial mapping accuracy of single cells, thereby improving the fidelity of the annotation of cell identity to the equivalent

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