Experiments

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• 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

• SA2E: spatial-aware auto-encoder for cell type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41863296 · PMC13070677 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SA2E is a spatial-aware auto-encoder framework for cell-type deconvolution that does not require predefined cell-type biomarkers

  olfactory legacy breast brain simulated real scrna-seq

• Ultra-precision deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics decodes immune heterogeneity and fate-defining programs in tissues.

  PMID 41862467 · PMC13168514 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UCASpatial is a novel deconvolution algorithm that uses Shannon entropy-based gene weighting combined with weighted non-negative least squares to estimate cell-type composition from spatial transcriptomics data

  simulated colorectal hippocampus ear simulated runtime spatial

• VISTA uncovers missing gene expression and spatial-induced information for spatial transcriptomic data analysis.

  PMID 41507434 · PMC12891734 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  VISTA predicts unmeasured gene expression in subcellular spatial transcriptomic data by integrating scRNA-seq and SST through variational inference and geometric deep learning with built-in uncertainty quantification

  brain breast embryo muscle imaging-based sequencing spot-based

• 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

• Spatial transcriptomics maps host-gut microbiome biogeography at high resolution.

  PMID 41792309 · PMC13171632 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Enzymatic in situ polyadenylation increases bacterial RNA recovery in oligo(dT)-based spatial transcriptomics arrays by up to ~100-fold while preserving host gene capture

  apc-deficient heart ileum fresh-frozen spatial high-resolution bulk

• Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Decidua Identifies Molecular Signatures in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss.

  PMID 41031483 · PMC13242933 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The human decidua contains two coherent spatial domains, the implantation zone (IZ) and glandular-secretory zone (GZ), corresponding to the decidua compacta and spongiosa

  first-trimester decidual spots dnk 10x h&e type

• 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

• 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

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals altered communities and drivers of aberrant epithelia and pro-fibrotic fibroblasts in interstitial lung diseases.

  PMID 41576947 · PMC12985369 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  snRNA-seq census of 227,680 nuclei across 48 cell types reveals altered cellular states and compositional rewiring of the distal lung in ILD

  frozen lung flash-frozen spatial single-nucleus scrna-seq 10x

• 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

• STAN, a computational framework for inferring spatially informed transcription factor activity.

  PMID 41521668 · PMC12784991 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  STAN, a linear mixed-effects (spatially weighted regression) model, integrates TF-target gene priors, gene expression, spatial coordinates, and histological image features to predict spot-specific TF activity in spatial transcriptomics data

  lymph glioblastoma breast dorsolateral spatial scrna-seq

• A Transcriptional Map of Human Tonsil Architecture: Beyond the Sum of (Single Cell) Parts.

  PMID 41518352 · PMC12790319 · European journal of immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics (CosMx SMI) captures tissue complexity and cellular composition more faithfully than scRNA-seq

  palatine same tonsil cosmx imaging-based immunofluorescence scrna-seq

• scComm: a contrastive learning framework for deciphering cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41877186 · PMC13134144 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scComm infers cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution using a data-adaptive L-R weighting module and supervised contrastive learning (SupCon loss) to distinguish significant CCC events from background noise

  simulated spatial liver single-cell simulated spatial scrna-seq

• SpaGene: A Deep Adversarial Framework for Spatial Gene Imputation.

  PMID 42146899 · PMC13176606 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SpaGene improves average PCC and SSIM and reduces RMSE compared to 6 baseline methods (SpaGE, gimVI, Tangram, VISTA, spRefine, stDiff) across 8 diverse ST-SC dataset pairs under gene-holdout evaluation.

  pairs nanostring st-sc osmfish_zeisel st-sc 5-fold spatially

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• sCellST predicts single-cell gene expression from H& E images.

  PMID 41513659 · PMC12858858 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  sCellST is a weakly supervised (Multiple Instance Learning) deep learning framework that predicts single-cell gene expression from H&E images alone, trained using paired spatial transcriptomics (Visium) and H&E slides

  ovarian kidney prostate breast simulation spot-level nucleus

• Genome-wide diversity and selective pressure in the human rhinovirus.

  PMID 17477878 · PMC1892812 · Virology journal · 2007 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Whole genome and subgenomic phylogenies of HRV are essentially identical at every locus, indicating consistent phylogenetic patterns across the genome.

  diverse hrv fully hrva genome phylogenetic pairwise

• Dissecting the immunosuppressive microenvironment of LAMA3 + malignant cells and SPP1 + macrophages in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41845425 · PMC13104401 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A LAMA3+ epithelial subpopulation (C3) enriched at the invasive tumor front shows strong EMT signatures and is associated with poor prognosis

  escc epithelial scrna-seq tcga-escc scrna-seq spatial infercnv

• Unveiling the early defense response dynamics in grapevines against Plasmopara viticola by single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 41593733 · PMC12918531 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Generated the first single-cell transcriptome atlas (scRNA-seq + spRNA-seq) of grapevine leaves during P. viticola infection across four early time points (0, 3, 6, 12 hpi)

  vitis guard cabernet tissue-specific single-cell spatial pseudo-time