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Missing-value imputation and in silico region detection for spatially resolved transcriptomics

Wang, L.; Liu, Z.

2021-05-17 bioinformatics
10.1101/2021.05.14.443446 bioRxiv
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We are pleased to introduce a first-of-its-kind algorithm that combines in-silico region detection and spatial gene-expression imputation. Spatial transcriptomics by 10X Visium (ST) is a new technology used to dissect gene and cell spatial organization. Analyzing this new type of data has two main challenges: automatically annotating the major tissue regions and excessive zero values of gene-expression due to high dropout rates. We developed a computational tool--MIST--that addresses both challenges by automatically identifying tissue regions and estimating missing gene-expression values for individual tissue regions. We validated MIST detected regions across multiple datasets using manual annotation on the histological staining images as references. We also demonstrated that MIST can accurately recover STs missing values through hold-out experiments. Furthermore, we showed that MIST could identify subtle intra-tissue heterogeneity and recover spatial gene-gene interaction signals. We therefore strongly encourage using MIST prior to downstream ST analysis because it provides unbiased region annotations and enables accurately de-noised spatial gene-expression profiles.

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