Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

  intestine triple-negative dorsolateral dlpfc semi-synthetic spatial single-cell

• Spatial transcriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal the role of nucleotide metabolism in breast cancer progression and tumor microenvironment.

  PMID 41613532 · PMC12847018 · Frontiers in oncology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor cells show significantly upregulated nucleotide metabolic activity, allowing stratification into NUhighepi and NUlowepi subgroups

  tcga-brca breast scrna-seq epithelial ssgsea single-cell cell-cell

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Identifying clinically relevant cell state interactions in the tumor microenvironment of IDH-mutant gliomas using CSI-TME.

  PMID 41807578 · PMC13230996 · Molecular systems biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CSI-TME is a computational pipeline that deconvolves bulk tumor RNA-seq into cell-type-specific expression (via CODEFACS), infers transcriptional states per cell type via ICA, and identifies IC pairs from two cell types whose joint activity is associated with survival via Cox regression

  idh-mutant tcga cgga deconvolved scrna-seq bulk independent

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• SpaNiche: spatial niche analysis to explore colocalization patterns and cellular interactions in spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 42015285 · PMC13231777 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaNiche integrates smoothed cell-type abundance and ligand-receptor expression matrices via graph-regularized joint NMF, across multiple spatial views, to identify colocalization patterns

  lymph colorectal prostate cerebral simulated spatial scrna-seq

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals the molecular signatures of prodromal and advanced α-synucleinopathy.

  PMID 41736854 · PMC12927100 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Early-stage (prodromal) aSyn pathology in M83+/+ mouse brainstem is associated with upregulation of ATP/energy metabolism pathways (glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid metabolism)

  sagittal st-derived spatial immunofluorescence cell-cell

• S3RL: Enhancing Spatial Single-Cell Transcriptomics With Separable Representation Learning.

  PMID 41556263 · PMC13042551 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S3RL is a separable representation learning framework that denoises sparse spatial transcriptomic data and enhances biologically relevant signals by integrating gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features.

  dorsolateral dlpfc nanostring spatial cell-type multi-platform

• transFusion: a novel comprehensive platform for integration analysis of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41645434 · PMC12930851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  transFusion is a comprehensive, web-based platform for integrated analysis of scRNA-seq and 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics data requiring no parameter configuration

  breast scrna-seq 10x cellphonedb

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomic analysis of human skin anatomy.

  PMID 41872488 · PMC13083264 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH-based spatial atlas of ~1.2 million cells resolves 45 cell types across 114 samples and 15 anatomic sites in normal human skin

  normal skin gtex matched merfish scrna-seq bulk

• Single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals tumor microenvironment heterogeneity in primary and lymph node-metastatic small cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41916294 · PMC13130650 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Three malignant subclusters (C5, C6, C9) are enriched in LNM tumors and display distinct metabolic and angiogenic programs alongside spatial immune exclusion

  pt-lnm spatial single-cell multi-organ single-cell multiplex h&e

• Reconstructing cell-cell interaction network in single-cell spatial transcriptomics via directed heterogeneous graph autoencoder.

  PMID 41999209 · PMC13189858 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DualCellChat, a directed heterogeneous graph autoencoder, reconstructs a complete and accurate CCI network from incomplete single-cell spatial transcriptomics

  visual hypothalamic olfactory breast single-cell cci benchmarking

• DLX2 marks an immunosuppressive dendritic-cell program that reshapes cytotoxic immunity and marks a tolerogenic microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41761000 · PMC13043845 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuroactive ligand–receptor signaling is among the most significantly upregulated pathways in LUAD relative to normal lung tissue.

  tcga-luad tcga luad dendritic-cell bulk survival pan-cancer

• Spider: a flexible and unified framework for simulating spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41237053 · PMC12790819 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Spider simulates ST data without requiring real ST data as a reference

  simulated hypothalamus dorsolateral spatial clustering cell-cell

• Benchmarking tools for deciphering cellular crosstalk in spatially-resolved transcriptomics.

  PMID 41952215 · PMC13174004 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  No prior systematic, quantitative benchmark exists for CCI inference methods specifically developed for spatial transcriptomics across multiple platforms

  synthetic real simulated simulation spot-purity real-data

• iS2C2: a cointelligent platform for mechanistic discovery of disease cellular crosstalk.

  PMID 42108258 · PMC13158306 · Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  iS2C2 integrates the S2C2 cell-cell communication algorithm with LLMs to generate biologically interpretable hypotheses from scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data

  single-cell algorithm domain scrna-seq single-cell perturbation llm-based

• Unveiling critical signaling pathways in the murine salivary gland and the role of midkine.

  PMID 41732276 · PMC12925232 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CellChat analysis of scRNA-seq data from E12, E14, and E16 murine SMG reveals distinct and evolving ligand-receptor signaling networks across developmental stages

  submandibular smg e13.5 single immunofluorescence organ

• Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal That TXNIP and BIRC3 Contribute to Human Prostate Tumor Progression.

  PMID 41972735 · PMC13072731 · Cells · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TXNIP and BIRC3 are established as spatially restricted tumor-niche genes associated with metabolic stress and inflammatory survival pathways

  prostate tcga-prad integration single-cell spatial pseudotime