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Main Authors: Zhu, Bencong, Cassese, Alberto, Vannucci, Marina, Guindani, Michele, Li, Qiwei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13453
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author Zhu, Bencong
Cassese, Alberto
Vannucci, Marina
Guindani, Michele
Li, Qiwei
author_facet Zhu, Bencong
Cassese, Alberto
Vannucci, Marina
Guindani, Michele
Li, Qiwei
contents The advent of next-generation sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) techniques has reshaped genomic studies by enabling high-throughput gene expression profiling while preserving spatial and morphological context. Understanding gene functions and interactions in different spatial domains is crucial, as it can enhance our comprehension of biological mechanisms, such as cancer-immune interactions and cell differentiation in various regions. It is necessary to cluster tissue regions into distinct spatial domains and identify discriminating genes that elucidate the clustering result, referred to as spatial domain-specific discriminating genes (DGs). Existing methods for identifying these genes typically rely on a two-stage approach, which can lead to the phenomenon known as \textit{double-dipping}. To address the challenge, we propose a unified Bayesian latent block model that simultaneously detects a list of DGs contributing to spatial domain identification while clustering these DGs and spatial locations. The efficacy of our proposed method is validated through a series of simulation experiments, and its capability to identify DGs is demonstrated through applications to benchmark SRT datasets.
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spellingShingle BISON: Bi-clustering of spatial omics data with feature selection
Zhu, Bencong
Cassese, Alberto
Vannucci, Marina
Guindani, Michele
Li, Qiwei
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The advent of next-generation sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) techniques has reshaped genomic studies by enabling high-throughput gene expression profiling while preserving spatial and morphological context. Understanding gene functions and interactions in different spatial domains is crucial, as it can enhance our comprehension of biological mechanisms, such as cancer-immune interactions and cell differentiation in various regions. It is necessary to cluster tissue regions into distinct spatial domains and identify discriminating genes that elucidate the clustering result, referred to as spatial domain-specific discriminating genes (DGs). Existing methods for identifying these genes typically rely on a two-stage approach, which can lead to the phenomenon known as \textit{double-dipping}. To address the challenge, we propose a unified Bayesian latent block model that simultaneously detects a list of DGs contributing to spatial domain identification while clustering these DGs and spatial locations. The efficacy of our proposed method is validated through a series of simulation experiments, and its capability to identify DGs is demonstrated through applications to benchmark SRT datasets.
title BISON: Bi-clustering of spatial omics data with feature selection
topic Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13453