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Computational approaches for multimodal lineage tracing.
Nature Reviews Genetics · · Review
Wang, He + 1 more
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Multimodal lineage tracing combined with advanced computational methods enables detailed reconstruction of cellular development with high accuracy and resolution.
- Why it matters: Understanding cell fate decisions is crucial for insights into development, regeneration, and disease, but current complex datasets require sophisticated analysis tools to extract meaningful biological information.
- What they did: The authors review recent computational advances, including methods for lineage reconstruction, trajectory inference, and molecular program identification, applied to single-cell multi-omic data from multimodal lineage tracing.
- The result: These approaches improve the accuracy of cell lineage and state transition analysis, and emerging technologies like deep learning will further enhance our understanding of cellular evolution in health and disease.
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