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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

Seumetry: a versatile and comprehensive R toolkit to accelerate high-dimensional flow and mass cytometry data analysis.

Malte Borggrewe, Markus Flosbach, Lucia Testa, Cedric Ly, Martin Baumdick, Immo Prinz, Hamburg Intestinal Tissue Study Group, Elena Billeb, Stefan Bonn, Madeleine J Bunders

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Malte BorggreweIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9644-288X
Markus FlosbachIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Lucia TestaIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Cedric LyInstitute of Medical Systems Biology, Center for Biomedical AI (bAIome), Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Martin BaumdickIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Immo PrinzHamburg Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8789-9578
Hamburg Intestinal Tissue Study Group
Elena BillebIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Stefan BonnInstitute of Medical Systems Biology, Center for Biomedical AI (bAIome), Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4366-5662
Madeleine J BundersIII. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

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Daisy Hüet Roëll FoundationDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1192Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1328Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1700Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1713Landesforschungsförderung of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg LFF-75, LFF-73Landesforschungsförderung of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg LFF-FV-UHH-009
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Abstract

motivationRecent progress in flow and mass cytometry technologies enables the simultaneous measurement of over 50 parameters for an individual cell. The resulting increase in data volume and complexity present challenges for conventional analysis methods, which are based on manual gating, are time-consuming and fail to capture unknown or minor cell populations. Advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) technologies have prompted the development of computational analysis tools designed to process and analyze high-dimensional biological data. Building on these advances, we here present Seumetry, a framework that combines flow and mass cytometry data-specific analysis methods with the capabilities of Seurat, a powerful tool for the analysis of scRNAseq data.

resultsSeumetry offers methods for advanced quality control, data visualizations, and differential population abundance and protein expression analysis. We tested Seumetry on an in-house generated complex dataset of immune cells from different layers of human intestines, demonstrating that Seumetry accurately identifies distinct immune cell populations. Furthermore, benchmarking against public datasets showed that Seumetry aligns with manual-gated results, further validating its use for high-dimensional flow and mass cytometry data. In summary, Seumetry provides a new scalable framework for the comprehensive analysis of high-dimensional cytometry data with seamless integration into commonly used scRNAseq analysis tools, enabling in-depth analysis methods to facilitate biological interpretations. AVAILABILITY: Seumetry code is available open source under an MIT license and the current version can be viewed and used via Github: https://github.com/imsb-uke/Seumetry; and archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21216681. Flow cytometry data generated for this manuscript is available via Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11935872.

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Computational BiologyFlow CytometryMass SpectrometrySoftwareHumansSingle-Cell Gene Expression Analysis

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PMID42867153
PMCPMC13675103

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