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Mining Spatial Transcriptomics Datasets using DeepSpaceDB

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TOGAR: Token-gated generative refinement for high-fidelity spatial transcriptomics and robust spatial domain

Dachen Liu¹, Hua Shi¹, Yihang Lin¹

¹School of Optoelectronic and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361024, Fujian, China.

|December 21, 2025

Summary

TOGAR, a novel generative model, enhances spatial transcriptomics by unifying denoising, spatial refinement, and clustering. It accurately delineates spatial domains, even small structures, improving biological insights from gene expression data.

Keywords:

Downstream analyses Spatial enhancement Spatial transcriptomics TOGAR

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Area of Science:

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Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Spatial transcriptomics enables gene expression mapping in tissues.
Data sparsity and noise hinder accurate spatial domain delineation.
Existing methods struggle with long-range dependency modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

To present TOGAR, a token-gated generative refinement model for spatial transcriptomics.
To unify denoising, spatial enhancement, and clustering.
To improve spatial domain delineation and biological interpretability.

Main Methods:

Combines graph convolutional network loss and zero-inflated negative binomial loss for denoising sparse count data.
Employs a UGate-based diffusion backbone with token gating, gated linear attention, and rotary positional embedding for generative spatial refinement.
Utilizes similarity-guided averaging and clustering for stable spot-level estimates and sharp domain boundaries.

Main Results:

TOGAR achieves or exceeds clustering accuracy and demonstrates superior stability across three spatial transcriptomics platforms and twelve slices.
Effectively recovers cortical layer organization and delineates fine-grained tumor subdomains.
Excels in detecting small, rare spatial structures missed by other methods, maintaining boundary integrity.

Conclusions:

TOGAR offers a robust solution for spatial transcriptomics data analysis, improving spatial domain delineation.
The model enhances biological interpretability by generating clearer, biologically relevant domain boundaries.
TOGAR's ability to detect rare structures advances the discovery of critical biological regions.