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Isolation and Profiling of Human Primary Mesenteric Arterial Endothelial Cells at the Transcriptome Level

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Spotless, a reproducible pipeline for benchmarking cell type deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics.

Chananchida Sang-Aram^1,2, Robin Browaeys^1,2, Ruth Seurinck^1,2

¹Data Mining and Modelling for Biomedicine, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.

|May 24, 2024

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We benchmarked 11 spatial deconvolution methods for spatial transcriptomics (ST). Top methods like cell2location and RCTD were identified, but a simple regression model also performed well.

Keywords:

benchmark computational biology deconvolution genetics genomics human mouse single-cell RNA sequencing spatial transcriptomics systems biology

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies provide cellular transcriptome data with spatial context.
Current ST methods often lack single-cell resolution, necessitating computational deconvolution to infer cell types within sequenced spots.

Purpose of the Study:

To benchmark and compare the performance of 11 deconvolution methods for spatial transcriptomics.
To evaluate method stability across datasets and scalability.
To provide a reproducible pipeline for deconvolution and benchmarking.

Main Methods:

Benchmarking of 11 deconvolution methods using 63 silver standards, 3 gold standards, and 2 tissue case studies (liver, melanoma).
Development of 'synthspot' simulation engine for generating silver standards from single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
Evaluation based on performance, stability, and scalability.

Main Results:

cell2location and RCTD emerged as top-performing methods.
A simple regression model unexpectedly outperformed nearly half of the specialized deconvolution methods.
Method performance significantly declined with highly abundant or rare cell types.

Conclusions:

The study identifies leading deconvolution tools for spatial transcriptomics and highlights the effectiveness of simpler models.
Challenges remain in deconvolution accuracy for datasets with skewed cell type distributions.
A reproducible Nextflow pipeline ('spotless-benchmark') is provided for data generation, deconvolution, and benchmarking.