#1 · Transcriptomics
Separating spatial context from cell identity in spatial transcriptomic variation
The dominant thread is attributing transcriptomic variation to spatial context as distinct from cell identity or composition. ARCADE separates cell-type abundance from continuous intratype transcriptional state. SpatioCAD uses cell-density-aware graph diffusion to reduce false-positive spatially variable gene calls in heterogeneous tissues. SpaceDX couples subject-level differential expression testing with gene-specific attention that localizes where effects occur, and reports better performance than cluster-based approaches. Domain identification is converging on niche-aware representations. Kontext jointly embeds cells and local environments through ligand-receptor interactions. TRACER uses twin-contrastive graph autoencoding to recover rare and fine-grained domains. smoothclust adds a boundary-density summary of label transitions. FICTURE2 pushes attribution to individual RNA molecules, inferring each molecule's program from gene identity and spatial context. CRISP characterizes cross-signal interactions in single-cell and spatial data. An LCM-Spatial-ATAC-seq study of zonated hepatocytes separates an invariant cell-type sub-network from state-level regulation. HiCONA, C-Fetch and MAGE address 3D genome and regulatory-network questions outside this thread.
Published papers
MAGE: an efficient algorithm for identifying Maximal Age-indexed GEne sets.
Introduces MAGE, a stochastic algorithm for finding maximal and minimal Age Index gene sets from time-varying gene regulatory networks; proves the problems…
TRACER: Twin-contrastive learning for fine-grained and rare spatial domain identification in spatial transcriptomics.
TRACER is a twin-contrastive graph autoencoder for spatial domain identification in spatial transcriptomics, improving detection of rare and fine-grained…
SpatioCAD: Context-aware graph diffusion model for pinpointing spatially variable genes in heterogeneous tissues.
SpatioCAD uses a cell-density-aware graph diffusion model to detect spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomics, reducing false positives in…
Preprints
An invariant network architecture with broadly expressed regulators distinguishes cell-type from cell-state identity in situ
Builds state-level core regulatory networks in zonated mouse hepatocytes using a new LCM-Spatial-ATAC-seq method, revealing an invariant cell-type sub-network…
Kontext: Kernel-based method bridging spatial domain identification and cell-cell communication
Kontext is a kernel-based framework jointly representing cells and local environments to identify spatial domains via ligand-receptor interactions, with…
smoothclust: Spatial smoothing and boundary-density summaries for spatial transcriptomics
smoothclust: spatial-smoothing domain clustering plus a boundary density metric summarizing label transitions on spatial graphs for spatial transcriptomics, as…
Joint localization and testing reveals spatial context of differential expression
SpaceDX jointly tests subject-level differential expression and localizes spatial patterns via gene-specific attention weighting, outperforming cluster-based…
A generative network model reveals hierarchical structural memory guiding post-mitotic 3D genome inheritance
HiCONA, a generative Bayesian framework inferring hierarchical 3D genome organization with an Entropy Impact Score, identifies mitotically retained…
ARCADE disentangles cell abundance from continuous transcriptional state in spatial transcriptomics
ARCADE is a computational framework that separates cell-type abundance from continuous intratype transcriptional state in spatial transcriptomics, improving…
Molecule-resolved inference reveals the spatial organization of transcriptional programs
FICTURE2 is a statistical model inferring the transcriptional program of each individual RNA molecule from gene identity and spatial context, without…
Reference-Guided De Novo Retrieval of 3D Chromatin Organizational Features with Representation Learning
C-Fetch: reference-guided retrieval of 3D chromatin contact-map features via weakly KL-regularized 3D autoencoder representations, validated on Polycomb, loop,…
Uncovering cross-signal interactions in single-cell and spatial omics
CRISP is a method that characterizes cross-signal interactions in single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data via correspondence between probabilistic…
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