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MANTIS: Analytics toolkit for spatial metabolomics with matching spatial transcriptomics data.
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Motivation: Joint Spatial Metabolomics (SM) and Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) profiling is a powerful approach to fine-mapping of metabolic states associated with tissue function. Current computational tools for analysis of "SM+ST" data focus primarily on alignment and integration of the two modalities, with limited support for probing biological relationships between the two molecular layers. Results: We present MANTIS, a statistical framework for analyzing co-registered SM+ST profiles at single cell or spot resolution, along with spatial domain or cell type information, to discover metabolite spatial patterns and gene-metabolite relationships. It employs an autocorrelation-preserving permutation strategy to assess statistical significance, yielding calibrated inference under spatial dependence. It disentangles different sources of spatial patterns and correlations, viz., those arising from regional preferences, cell type associations, or other unknown factors. It introduces the use of spatial cross-correlation and spatial partial correlation statistics for quantifying gene-metabolite associations. Across data sets spanning different spatial technologies, tissues and species, MANTIS provides more specific and interpretable discoveries than existing methods through rigorous statistical testing and explicitly modeling confounding structure. To our knowledge, MANTIS is the first toolkit to unify spatial metabolomics, spatial transcriptomics, cell type information and spatial domains within a single framework that emphasizes spatial statistics, hypothesis testing and confounder correction. Availability and Implementation: Freely available on the web at https://github.com/yuhaotuo/MANTIS.
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