An algorithm framework employing multi-layered regional constraints to accurately assign cell locations, enhancing spatial accuracy and resilience to noise.
Project description
Mapping cell locations via multi-layer regionalization constraints
Introduction
Resolving spatial cell arrangement is crucial for understanding physiological and pathological processes. While scRNA-seq captures gene expression at single-cell resolution, it loses spatial context, and current spatial transcriptomics methods often compromise on throughput or resolution. Existing integration methods face challenges with accuracy and scalability due to noise from molecular diffusion, cell segmentation errors, and disproportionate cell-type representation. We present CellChIP, an algorithm framework employing multi-layered regional constraints to accurately assign cell locations, enhancing spatial accuracy and resilience to noise. Comparative analysis on benchmark datasets demonstrates CellChIP’s superior accuracy and scalability over existing methods. Applied to liver cancer tissue, CellChIP revealed spatial heterogeneity of cDC cells, a detail missed by deconvolution-based techniques, and achieved cell-cell interaction resolution beyond traditional mapping approaches. Additionally, CellChIP outperforms current techniques in computational efficiency and resource usage, particularly with large-scale stereo-seq data, underscoring its potential for broad application.
.. image:: ./overview.png :width: 1200 :align: center :alt: Overview of CellChip
Installation
CellChip can be installed either through GitHub or PyPI.
To install from GitHub:
.. code-block:: bash
git clone https://github.com/caiquanyou/CellChip
cd CellChip
python setup.py install # or pip install .
Alternatively, install via PyPI using:
.. code-block:: bash
pip install CellChip
Usage
After installation, CellChip can be used in Python as follows:
.. code-block:: python
import CellChip as cc
Contributing
Contributions to CellChip are welcome. Please refer to the project's issues and pull requests for areas where you can help.
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