NicheCompass (Niche Identification based on Cellular grapH Embeddings of COMmunication Programs Aligned across Spatial Samples) is a package for end-to-end analysis of spatial multi-omics data, including spatial atlas building, niche identification & characterization, cell-cell communication inference and spatial reference mapping. It is built on top of PyG and AnnData.
Resources
- An installation guide, tutorials and API documentation is available in the documentation.
- Please use issues to submit bug reports.
- If you would like to contribute, check out the contributing guide.
- If you find NicheCompass useful for your research, please consider citing the NicheCompass manuscript.
Reference
@article{Birk2025,
author = {Birk, S. et al.},
title = {Quantitative characterization of cell niches in spatially resolved omics data},
journal = {Nature Genetics},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1038/s41588-025-02120-6},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02120-6}
}
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