Current computational methods for spatial transcriptomics in cancer biology.
Adv Cancer Res
; 163: 71-106, 2024.
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ABSTRACT
Cells in multicellular organisms constitute a self-organizing society by interacting with their neighbors. Cancer originates from malfunction of cellular behavior in the context of such a self-organizing system. The identities or characteristics of individual tumor cells can be represented by the hallmark of gene expression or transcriptome, which can be addressed using single-cell dissociation followed by RNA sequencing. However, the dissociation process of single cells results in losing the cellular address in tissue or neighbor information of each tumor cell, which is critical to understanding the malfunctioning cellular behavior in the microenvironment. Spatial transcriptomics technology enables measuring the transcriptome which is tagged by the address within a tissue. However, to understand cellular behavior in a self-organizing society, we need to apply mathematical or statistical methods. Here, we provide a review on current computational methods for spatial transcriptomics in cancer biology.
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Biologia Computacional
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Transcriptoma
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Neoplasias
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Animals
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Humans
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2024
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