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  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Systems Biology
  • Computational Biology

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  • Biological systems exhibit heterogeneity at all scales, impacting research, drug discovery, diagnostics, and precision medicine.
  • Existing methods for characterizing cellular heterogeneity have limitations in high-throughput applications.
  • There is a need for standardized approaches to detect and quantify heterogeneity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review experimental methods capturing multiplexed cell-level data for heterogeneity analysis.
  • To emphasize the need for standard metrics for spatial, temporal, and population heterogeneity.
  • To recommend a set of heterogeneity indices for high-throughput workflows.

Main Methods:

  • Review of experimental methods for multiplexed cell-level data acquisition.
  • Proposal of three heterogeneity indices for high-throughput workflows.
  • Suggestion of pairwise mutual information for spatial heterogeneity analysis in tissue imaging.

Main Results:

  • Identification of experimental methods suitable for high-throughput heterogeneity assessment.
  • Recommendation for adopting standardized heterogeneity indices.
  • Proposal of pairwise mutual information for spatial heterogeneity characterization.

Conclusions:

  • Standardized metrics are crucial for quantifying biological heterogeneity in high-throughput settings.
  • The proposed heterogeneity indices and methods can optimize decision-making in biomedical applications.
  • Analysis of functional phenotypic heterogeneity aids in interpreting experiments, drug discovery, diagnostics, and personalized medicine.