SpatialDE: identification of spatially variable genes.
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SUBMITTER: Svensson V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6350895 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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SpatialDE: identification of spatially variable genes.
Svensson Valentine V Teichmann Sarah A SA Stegle Oliver O
Nature methods 20180319 5
Technological advances have made it possible to measure spatially resolved gene expression at high throughput. However, methods to analyze these data are not established. Here we describe SpatialDE, a statistical test to identify genes with spatial patterns of expression variation from multiplexed imaging or spatial RNA-sequencing data. SpatialDE also implements 'automatic expression histology', a spatial gene-clustering approach that enables expression-based tissue histology. ...[more]
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