Deciphering spatial domains from spatial multi-omics with SpatialGlue

doi:10.1038/s41592-024-02316-4

Deciphering spatial domains from spatial multi-omics with SpatialGlue

2024-06-21

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Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne

DOI：10.1038/s41592-024-02316-4

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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. SpatialGlue is a graph neural network-based approach for integrating multimodal spatial omics data. Combining complementary data modalities improves the discovery of spatial domains as well as the identification of cell subpopulations across tissues.

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