Abstract
The technology to generate Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics (SRT) data is rapidly being improved and applied to investigate a variety of biological tissues. The ability to interrogate how spatially localised gene expression can lend new insight to different tissue development is critical, but the appropriate tools to analyse this data are still emerging. This chapter reviews available packages and pipelines for the analysis of different SRT datasets with a focus on identifying spatially variable genes (SVGs) alongside other aims, while discussing the importance of and challenges in establishing a standardised ‘ground truth’ in the biological data for benchmarking.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Transcriptomics in Health and Disease |
Editors | Geraldo A. Passos |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer |
Chapter | 7 |
Pages | 165-186 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030878214 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030878207 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Biological tissues
- Gene regulatory networks
- Organ development
- Pipeline
- ScRNA-Seq
- Spatial biology
- Spatial expression patterns
- Spatial transcriptomics
- SpatialDE
- Spatially localised gene expression
- Spatially resolved transcriptomics
- Transcriptomic approaches