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geneSCOPE: gene spatial co-occurrence of pairwise expression.
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Zhang, Saeki + 1 more
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geneSCOPE identifies spatial gene modules in human colorectal cancer and lymph node Xenium sections (N=3 and 1) that map to microanatomical compartments and tumor-stroma interfaces.
- Why it matters: Existing spatial transcriptomics workflows depend on user-defined neighbor graphs and measurement scale, making spatial associations sensitive and limiting cross-study comparability.
- What they did: geneSCOPE bins molecules on a grid using a width near the mode of per-gene unit-invariant knee distributions from Morisita’s Iδ-width curves, then quantifies adjacency-weighted spatial associations with Lee’s L.
- The result: It recovered compartment-linked modules and highlighted LGR5-stem-like tumor programs co-occurring with C3-centered fibroblast/complement niches, and showed the highest concordance with known interacting gene pairs in STRING benchmarking.
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