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SpaceBar enables single-cell-resolution clone tracing with imaging-based spatial transcriptomics

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Grant Kinsler *
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C.E. Fagan
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Haiyin Li
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Jessica Kaster
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M. J. Dunne
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Robert Vander Velde
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Ryan H. Boe
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Sydney M. Shaffer
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Meenhard Herlyn
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Arjun Raj
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Yael Heyman *
DOI:10.1038/s41592-025-02968-wdelete
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Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics methods allow for the measurement of spatial determinants of cellular phenotypes but are incompatible with random barcode-based clone-tracing methods, preventing the simultaneous detection of clonal and spatial drivers. Here we report SpaceBar, which enables simultaneous clone tracing and spatial gene expression profiling with standard imaging-based spatial transcriptomics pipelines. Our approach uses a library of 96 synthetic barcode sequences that combinatorially labels each cell. Thus, SpaceBar can distinguish between clonal dynamics and environmentally driven transcriptional regulation in complex tissue contexts. SpaceBar is a cellular barcoding strategy for simultaneous analysis of cell clonal and spatial identities.
Keywords:
SpaceBar
clone tracing
spatial transcriptomics
cellular barcoding
gene expression profiling

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