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What is Spatial transcriptomics ?

Spatial transcriptomics is a range of methods designed for assigning cell types to their locations in the histological sections.

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It provides quantitative gene expression data and visualization of the distribution of mRNAs within tissue sections and valuable in research and diagnostics.

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What is Spatial Biology?

Spatial Biology is defined as the study of tissues within their own 2D or 3D context. It is the new frontier of molecular biology.

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How does spatial Transcriptomics work?

Spatial Transcriptomics utilizes spotted arrays of specialized mRNA-capturing probes on the surface of glass slides. ....


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Each spot contains capture probes with a spatial barcode unique to that spot. When tissue is attached to the slide, the capture probes bind RNA.

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Why is spatial profiling such a powerful technique?

Provides information of cell type composition and provides the genomic information of single cells.

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Commercialized techniques such as Spatial Transcriptomics , released as Visium by 10X Genomics, as well as GeoMx  and CosMx  by Nanostring

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 Best-practice analysis pipeline:
  1. Normalization and Quality Control
2.cell deconvolutio
3. Spot resolution enhancemen
4. Dimensionality reduction

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5. Integration with scRNA-seq data
6. Label transfer from scRNA-seq data
7. Clustering of the spots
8. Visualization of clusters

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The pipeline combines multiple tools, toolkits and platforms:
Bioconductor
Seurat
scran 
scanpy
anndata
scanorama
SpatialExperiment