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DeST-OT: Alignment of Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Data.

Peter Halmos¹, Xinhao Liu¹, Julian Gold²

¹Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden St, Princeton, NJ 08544.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology

|March 18, 2024

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We developed DeST-OT, a new method for aligning spatiotemporal transcriptomics data. This approach accurately models cell development, improving insights into tissue growth and differentiation.

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Area of Science:

Developmental Biology
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) captures gene expression and cell distribution within tissues.
Analyzing SRT data across developmental timepoints is crucial for understanding cellular growth and differentiation.
Existing methods struggle to accurately model complex cellular processes in spatiotemporal alignment.

Approach:

Introduced DeST-OT (Developmental SpatioTemporal Optimal Transport), a novel method for aligning SRT data from different developmental stages.
Utilized semi-relaxed optimal transport to model cellular growth, death, and differentiation processes more precisely.
Developed two new metrics: a growth distortion metric and a migration metric to assess alignment plausibility.

Key Points:

DeST-OT accurately models cellular dynamics, outperforming existing methods in spatiotemporal alignment.
The method was validated on simulated data and demonstrated superior performance on axolotl brain development data.
New metrics provide quantitative measures for evaluating the biological plausibility of spatiotemporal transcriptomics alignments.

Conclusions:

DeST-OT offers a significant advancement in analyzing developmental spatiotemporal transcriptomics data.
The method enhances our ability to study gene expression programs during organismal development.
This work provides a robust framework for understanding tissue morphogenesis and cellular evolution over space and time.