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Spatially aware self-representation learning for tissue structure characterization and spatial functional genes identification

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Chuanchao Zhang
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Xinxing Li
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Wendong Huang
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Lequn Wang *
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石倩倩 (Qianqian Shi) *
DOI:10.1093/bib/bbad197delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) enable the comprehensive characterization of transcriptomic profiles in the context of tissue microenvironments. Unveiling spatial transcriptional heterogeneity needs to effectively incorporate spatial information accounting for the substantial spatial correlation of expression measurements. Here, we develop a computational method, SpaSRL (spatially aware self-representation learning), which flexibly enhances and decodes spatial transcriptional signals to simultaneously achieve spatial domain detection and spatial functional genes identification. This novel tunable spatially aware strategy of SpaSRL not only balances spatial and transcriptional coherence for the two tasks, but also can transfer spatial correlation constraint between them based on a unified model. In addition, this joint analysis by SpaSRL deciphers accurate and fine-grained tissue structures and ensures the effective extraction of biologically informative genes underlying spatial architecture. We verified the superiority of SpaSRL on spatial domain detection, spatial functional genes identification and data denoising using multiple SRT datasets obtained by different platforms and tissue sections. Our results illustrate SpaSRL's utility in flexible integration of spatial information and novel discovery of biological insights from spatial transcriptomic datasets.
Keywords:
spatially resolved transcriptomics
spatial domain identification
spatial information
self-representation learning

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Briefings in Bioinformatics
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Huazhong Agricultural University
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