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DiSCO: deconvoluting spatial transcriptomics via combinatorial optimization with a foundational diffusion model.

Jing Liu¹, Yahao Wu¹, Limin Li¹

¹School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xianning West 28, 710049 Shaanxi, China.

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A new method, DiSCO, uses a foundational diffusion model for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution. This approach efficiently determines cell types within tissue spots, improving generalization across diverse datasets.

Keywords:

combinatorial optimization deconvolution diffusion model foundational model

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Understanding tissue heterogeneity requires deciphering cellular composition in spatial transcriptomics (ST) data.
Current deconvolution models lack generalization and computational efficiency, often needing retraining for new tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a generalizable and efficient computational model for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution.
To address the limitations of existing methods in terms of performance and adaptability to new datasets.

Main Methods:

Introduced DiSCO, a foundational diffusion model for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution based on combinatorial optimization (CO).
Formulated ST deconvolution as a task-specific deconvolutional CO problem, assigning single cells to spatial spots.
Utilized a bipartite graph diffusion model as a generalizable optimization solver, pretrained on numerous deconvolution tasks.

Main Results:

DiSCO effectively determines cellular composition for each spatial spot by learning the distribution of true solutions.
The pretrained DiSCO model demonstrates robust performance and efficiency on simulated and real ST datasets.
The model shows excellent generalization capabilities across datasets with varying resolutions and gene numbers.

Conclusions:

DiSCO provides a generalizable and computationally efficient solution for spatial transcriptomics deconvolution.
The foundational diffusion model approach overcomes the limitations of previous methods, enabling broader applicability.
DiSCO facilitates accurate cellular composition analysis in diverse ST data, advancing tissue heterogeneity research.