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  • Genomics
  • Systems Biology

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  • Cell-cell interactions are crucial for organismal development, homeostasis, and cellular functions.
  • Dysfunctional cell-cell communication or signaling errors can lead to disease.
  • Intercellular signaling pathway analysis is a common and important task in many scientific disciplines.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight discoveries made through analyzing cell-cell interactions using transcriptomic data.
  • To review the methods and tools employed for inferring intercellular communication from gene expression data.
  • To provide a comprehensive overview of current approaches in transcriptomic analysis of cell-cell communication.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing protein-protein interaction databases to identify potential signaling molecules.
  • Employing advances in RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technologies for gene expression measurements.
  • Inferring intercellular communication by analyzing the coordinated expression of ligand-receptor gene pairs from bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data.

Main Results:

  • Transcriptomic data analysis has enabled significant discoveries in understanding cell-cell interactions.
  • Ligand-receptor pair expression patterns serve as a basis for inferring communication pathways.
  • The integration of large-scale interaction databases and advanced sequencing technologies facilitates routine analysis.

Conclusions:

  • Transcriptomic analysis provides powerful tools for dissecting complex cell-cell communication networks.
  • Understanding these interactions is key to deciphering biological processes and disease mechanisms.
  • This review consolidates current methodologies, paving the way for future research in intercellular signaling.