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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2026

GAMMI: graph-guided contrastive and adversarial integration of single-cell and spatial multi-omics data.

Yipei Yu, Meihua Long, Jiali Song, Kai Cao, Meimei Luo, Wei Liu, Zhiwei Rong, Yan Hou

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Yipei YuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Meihua LongDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Jiali SongDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Kai CaoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Meimei LuoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Wei LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Zhiwei RongDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Yan HouDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3658-8147

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82373682National Science and Technology Major Project on the Prevention and Control of Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases 2025ZD01906004
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Abstract

Integrating single-cell and spatial multi-omics data is essential for resolving cellular identity, regulatory programs and tissue organization, yet remains challenging under realistic experimental designs. In practice, data are often incomplete, unpaired and partially overlapping across batches and platforms, resulting in mosaic settings where missingness, batch effects and limited correspondence are tightly coupled. Existing methods typically rely on shared cells, explicit anchors or post hoc mapping, and can become unstable as overlap diminishes or spatial structure is not explicitly modeled. Here we present GAMMI (Graph-guided Adversarial Mosaic Multi-omics Integration), a unified graph learning framework for mosaic integration of heterogeneous single-cell and spatial multi-omics data. Rather than performing direct cell or sample alignment, GAMMI learns biologically meaningful relational structure by jointly embedding cells and molecular features in a shared latent space using heterogeneous graphs that encode cell-feature, feature-feature and spatial adjacency relationships. An edge-based contrastive objective with missingness-aware negative sampling avoids false-negative supervision under unobserved modalities, while adversarial domain adaptation suppresses batch-associated variation at the embedding level. Spatial data are incorporated as structurally informative constraints during learning, enabling systematic enrichment of molecular representations across spatial locations. Across diverse mosaic single-cell benchmarks and spatial datasets, GAMMI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in biological conservation, batch correction and spatial reconstruction, including in low-overlap and fully unpaired regimes.

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Computational BiologySingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsHumansMultiomicsSpatial Transcriptomicsgraph neural networkmosaic integrationsingle-cell multi-omics integrationspatial transcriptomics

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PMCPMC13158126

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