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Spatial Profiling of Protein and RNA Expression in Tissue: An Approach to Fine-Tune Virtual Microdissection

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Published on: July 6, 2022

Unified integration of spatial transcriptomics across platforms.

Ellie Haber¹, Ajinkya Deshpande¹, Jian Ma²

¹Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology

|April 16, 2025

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Loki integrates diverse spatial transcriptomics (ST) data without shared gene panels. This framework enables unified analysis across technologies, advancing tissue architecture and cellular interaction studies.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers insights into tissue architecture but faces integration challenges across platforms due to varying gene panels, data sparsity, and technical variability.
Current methods struggle to harmonize ST data from different technologies, limiting comprehensive analysis and discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce L loki, a novel framework for integrating imaging-based ST data from diverse platforms without requiring shared gene panels.
To enable robust cross-platform analysis and facilitate deeper understanding of cellular organization and tissue environments.

Main Methods:

L loki employs feature alignment using optimal transport-guided feature propagation and graph-based imputation to match ST data to single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) references.
It utilizes single-cell foundation models like scGPT for unified feature generation and subsequent batch alignment to refine embeddings and mitigate technical variability.
The framework addresses ST integration through feature and batch alignment tasks.

Main Results:

L loki successfully integrated spatial transcriptomics data from five different mouse brain technologies, outperforming existing methods.
The framework enabled effective cross-technology spatial gene program identification and tissue slice alignment.
Application to ovarian cancer datasets identified an integrated gene program associated with tumor-infiltrating T cells across different gene panels.

Conclusions:

L loki provides a robust solution for integrating spatial transcriptomics data across diverse platforms and technologies.
The framework has the potential to scale to large atlas datasets, enabling more comprehensive insights into complex biological systems.
This advancement facilitates cross-platform spatial transcriptomics studies, enhancing the discovery of cellular interactions and tissue characteristics.