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Deciphering spatial domains from spatial multi-omics with SpatialGlue

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Long, Yahui, Ang, Kok Siong, Sethi, Raman, Liao, Sha, Heng, Yang, van Olst, Lynn, Ye, Shuchen, Zhong, Chengwei +12 more·2024·Nature Methods

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Advances in spatial omics technologies now allow multiple types of data to be acquired from the same tissue slice. To realize the full potential of such data, we need spatially informed methods for data integration. Here, we introduce SpatialGlue, a graph neural network model with a dual-attention mechanism that deciphers spatial domains by intra-omics integration of spatial location and omics measurement followed by cross-omics integration. We demonstrated SpatialGlue on data acquired from different tissue types using different technologies, including spatial epigenome-transcriptome and transcriptome-proteome modalities. Compared to other methods, SpatialGlue captured more anatomical details and more accurately resolved spatial domains such as the cortex layers of the brain. Our method also identified cell types like spleen macrophage subsets located at three different zones that were not available in the original data annotations. SpatialGlue scales well with data size and can be used to integrate three modalities. Our spatial multi-omics analysis tool combines the information from complementary omics modalities to obtain a holistic view of cellular and tissue properties.

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Long, Y., Ang, K. S., Sethi, R., Liao, S., Heng, Y., van Olst, L., Ye, S., Zhong, C., Xu, H., Zhang, D., Kwok, I., Husna, N., Jian, M., Ng, L. G., Chen, A., Gascoigne, N. R. J., Gate, D., Fan, R., Xu, X., & Chen, J.
Affiliations
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
  • BGI Group (China) (CN)
  • Yale University (US)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
  • Northwestern University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Chen, Ao
  • Chen, Jinmiao
Venue
Nature Methods
Published
2024-06-21
Volume
21
Issue
9
Pages
1658-1667
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
OpenAlex
W4399892951
Cited by
223
References
28
Citations by year
2026: 131 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 1
FWCI
30.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Methods (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Research Foundation (NRF-CRP26-2021-0001)
  • National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF-CRP26-2021-0001, MOH-OFLCG18May-0003)
  • Medical Research Council
  • National Medical Research Council (MOH-OFLCG18May-0003, NMRC /OFLCG/003/2018)
  • Biomedical Research Council
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Keywords
spatial multi-omics, spatial domain identification, graph neural networks, dual attention mechanism, transcriptome-proteome integration, spatial data integration
MeSH terms
Epigenome, Multiomics, Animals, Brain, Humans, Spleen, Neural Networks, Computer, Computational Biology, Proteome, Genomics, Proteomics, Mice, Transcriptome

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