Unravelling spatial gene associations with SEAGAL : a Python package for spatial transcriptomics data analysis and visualization

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SUMMARY: In the era where transcriptome profiling moves toward single-cell and spatial resolutions, the traditional co-expression analysis lacks the power to fully utilize such rich information to unravel spatial gene associations. Here, we present a Python package called Spatial Enrichment Analysis of Gene Associations using L-index (SEAGAL) to detect and visualize spatial gene correlations at both single-gene and gene-set levels. Our package takes spatial transcriptomics datasets with gene expression and the aligned spatial coordinates as input. It allows for analyzing and visualizing genes' spatial correlations and cell types' colocalization within the precise spatial context. The output could be visualized as volcano plots and heatmaps with a few lines of code, thus providing an easy-yet-comprehensive tool for mining spatial gene associations.

AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The Python package SEAGAL can be installed using pip: https://pypi.org/project/seagal/. The source code and step-by-step tutorials are available at: https://github.com/linhuawang/SEAGAL.

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UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 13;:. - PMID 36824948

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

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Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 39(2023), 7 vom: 01. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Linhua [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Chaozhong [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiang H-F [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhandong [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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Date Completed 26.07.2023

Date Revised 19.03.2024

published: Print

UpdateOf: bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 13;:. - PMID 36824948

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1093/bioinformatics/btad431

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NLM359375472