Deep learning and alignment of spatially-resolved whole transcriptomes of single cells in the mouse brain with Tangram is a dataset (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.9, placing it in the top 35.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 36 times, with 29 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 28/100.
Charting a biological atlas of an organ, such as the brain, requires us to spatially-resolve whole transcriptomes of single cells, and to relate such cellular features to the histological and anatomical scales. Single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-Seq (sc/snRNA-seq) can map cells comprehensively 5,6 , but relating those to their histological and anatomical positions in the context of an organ’s common coordinate framework remains a major challenge and barrier to the construction of a cell atlas 7–10 . Conversely, Spatial Transcriptomics allows for in-situ measurements 11–13 at the histological level, but at lower spatial resolution and with limited sensitivity. Targeted in situ technologies 1–3 solve both issues, but are limited in gene throughput which impedes profiling of the entire transcriptome. Finally, as samples are collected for profiling, their registration to anatomical atlases often require human supervision, which is a major obstacle to build pipelines at scale. Here, we demonstrate spatial mapping of cells, histology, and anatomy in the somatomotor area and the visual area of the healthy adult mouse brain. We devise Tangram, a method that aligns snRNA-seq data to various forms of spatial data collected from the same brain region, including MERFISH 1 , STARmap 2 , smFISH 3 , and Spatial Transcriptomics 4 (Visium), as well as histological images and public atlases. Tangram can map any type of sc/snRNA-seq data, including multi-modal data such as SHARE-seq data 5 , which we used to reveal spatial patterns of chromatin accessibility. We equipped Tangram with a deep learning computer vision pipeline, which allows for automatic identification of anatomical annotations on histological images of mouse brain. By doing so, Tangram reconstructs a genome-wide, anatomically-integrated, spatial map of the visual and somatomotor area with ∼30,000 genes at single-cell resolution, revealing spatial gene expression and chromatin accessibility patterning beyond current limitation of in-situ technologies.
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Base Score Contribution
0.542
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.4
From 26 citing papers with measurable signal
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DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 28% comes from its base citations and 72% from the citation network (26 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
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