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SpaNorm: spatially-aware normalization for spatial transcriptomics data.

Agus Salim^1,2,3,4, Dharmesh D Bhuva^5,6,7,8, Carissa Chen^9,10,11

¹Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, VIC, Australia. salim.a@unimelb.edu.au.

|April 29, 2025

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SpaNorm is a novel normalization method for spatial transcriptomics data that accounts for biological differences. It effectively removes library size effects without losing crucial biological information.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Normalization of spatial transcriptomics data is complex due to the interplay between library size and biological signals.
Existing methods struggle to disentangle these effects, potentially removing biological information.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a spatially-aware normalization method for spatial transcriptomics data.
To effectively remove library size effects while preserving biological information.

Main Methods:

Developed SpaNorm, a novel method that concurrently models library size and biological effects.
Segregated library size effects from biological signals.
Validated on 27 tissue samples across 6 datasets and 4 platforms.

Main Results:

SpaNorm outperforms common single-cell normalization methods.
Retains spatial domain information and detects spatially variable genes.
Demonstrates robust performance across multicellular and subcellular data and segmentation methods.

Conclusions:

SpaNorm provides effective and versatile normalization for spatial transcriptomics.
The method preserves biological insights while addressing technical variations.