March 20, 2024Nature MethodsOpen Access

SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics

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LMLuca MarconatoGerman Cancer Research Center GPGiovanni PallaChan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)KYKevin A. YamauchiSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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Computational framework demonstrates unified alignment and cross-modal aggregation in multimodal spatial omics datasets, suggesting improved integration across diverse tissue platforms.

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Unified multiplatform representations successfully coordinate large spatial omics datasets, enabling lazy loading of larger-than-memory data across heterogeneous biological formats.
Computational framework evaluation establishes common coordinate systems and spatial annotations, tested on integrative analysis of a multimodal Xenium and Visium breast cancer dataset.
May enable unified cross-modal aggregation across spatial omics datasets, supporting standardized spatial annotations and reproducible analysis of complex biological tissue structures.

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Marconato et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e732b8b6db6435876aba45 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02212-x

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Computational framework demonstrates unified alignment and cross-modal aggregation in multimodal spatial omics datasets, suggesting improved integration across diverse tissue platforms.

SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics

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SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics

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