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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

spatiAlytica: Viewer-Grounded Multimodal Agentic System for Interactive Spatial Omics Analysis.

Arun Das, Kexun Zhang, Jifeng Song, Meiru Han, Angela Chen, Wen Meng, Hugh Galloway, Po-Yuan Chen, Sumin Jo, Zhentao Liu and 7 more

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17 authors.

Arun DasCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7512-0523
Kexun ZhangLanguage Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jifeng SongCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Meiru HanCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Angela ChenLanguage Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Wen MengCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Hugh GallowayDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Po-Yuan ChenDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Sumin JoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Zhentao LiuCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Md Musaddaqul HasibCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Adam OfficerCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Harsh SinhaIntelligent Systems Program, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Yu-Chiao ChiuDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Shou-Jiang GaoCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Lei LiLanguage Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Yufei HuangCancer Virology Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6268-5357

Funding

VECTOR CORE FACILITYP30CA047904 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Jessie Nedrow · 1988 to 2026
$158.0M
Cell Model for KSHV Infection and Genetic ManipulationR01CA096512 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Shou-Jiang Gao · 2003 to 2026
$7.4M
Regulation of KSHV replication by N6-methyladenosine (m6A) - Diversity SupplementR01CA124332 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI GAO, SHOU-JIANG · 2007 to 2025
$5.0M
Impact of microbiota on AIDS-Kaposi’s sarcoma development and therapyR01CA284554 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Shou-Jiang Gao · 2023 to 2026
$3.1M
Citrulline-urea cycle in KSHV cellular transformationR01CA278812 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Shou-Jiang Gao · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
m6A-suite: an informatics pipeline and resource for elucidating roles of m6A epitranscriptome in cancerU01CA279618 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI HUANG, YUFEI · 2023 to 2025
$1.8M
METTL16 and S-adenosylmethionine cycle in KSHV infectionR01CA291244 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Shou-Jiang Gao · 2025 to 2026
$1.3M
Novel computational approaches for pharmacogenomics of complex diseasesR35GM154967 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Yu-Chiao Chiu · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
High-Throughput Computing for Genomics and Bioinformatics ResearchS10OD028483 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEE, ADRIAN V · 2021 to 2021
$574k
Novel geometric deep learning models for tissue structure-aware spatial expression representations from spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics dataR21GM155774 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GAO, SHOU-JIANG, HUANG, YUFEI · 2024 to 2025
$433k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA047904NCI NIH HHS R01 CA096512NCI NIH HHS R01 CA124332NCI NIH HHS R01 CA278812NCI NIH HHS R01 CA284554NCI NIH HHS R01 CA291244NCI NIH HHS U01 CA279618NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM155774NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154967NIH HHS S10 OD028483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial transcriptomics and proteomics map tissue architecture and cellular interactions, but analysis remains limited by programming demands and text-centered AI agents that lack viewer grounding and cross-turn context. We present spatiAlytica, a viewer-centric multimodal interactive agentic system embedded in the Napari viewer that enables non-programmer biologists to perform iterative, hypothesis-driven spatial omics analysis via natural language. spatiAlytica couples viewer-state serialization, agentic memory, biological concept-to-data-field mapping, code generation and debugging, Spatial VQA, and grounded interpretation to support an exploratory analysis and interpretive reasoning workflow. We introduce spatiAlyticaBench, a comprehensive benchmark spanning 222 single-turn spatial analytical coding questions, 178 multi-turn sequential workflow questions, and 7,350 image-grounded reasoning questions. spatiAlytica outperformed strong agentic baselines, while using less time and tokens. Case studies across Kaposi's sarcoma, colorectal cancer, and ovarian cancer recapitulated known spatial patterns and uncovered progressive CD8 T-cell dysfunction during KS progression.

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