Challenges and best practices in omics benchmarking

TG Brooks, NF Lahens, A Mrčela, GR Grant - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Technological advances enabling massively parallel measurement of biological features—
such as microarrays, high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry—have ushered in …

CZ CELLxGENE Discover: a single-cell data platform for scalable exploration, analysis and modeling of aggregated data

CZI Cell Science Program, S Abdulla… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Hundreds of millions of single cells have been analyzed using high-throughput
transcriptomic methods. The cumulative knowledge within these datasets provides an …

Computational cell–cell interaction technologies drive mechanistic and biomarker discovery in the tumor microenvironment

A Pong, CK Mah, GW Yeo, NE Lewis - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Tumor-immune CCIs can be investigated using scRNA-seq and ST
strategies.•CCI studies elucidate fundamental mechanisms in disease state.•Open-source …

CellCharter reveals spatial cell niches associated with tissue remodeling and cell plasticity

M Varrone, D Tavernari, A Santamaria-Martínez… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Tissues are organized in cellular niches, the composition and interactions of which can be
investigated using spatial omics technologies. However, systematic analyses of tissue …

A fast, scalable and versatile tool for analysis of single-cell omics data

K Zhang, NR Zemke, EJ Armand, B Ren - Nature methods, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell omics technologies have revolutionized the study of gene regulation in complex
tissues. A major computational challenge in analyzing these datasets is to project the large …

LIANA+ provides an all-in-one framework for cell–cell communication inference

D Dimitrov, PSL Schäfer, E Farr, P Rodriguez-Mier… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The growing availability of single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics has led to the
development of many approaches to infer cell–cell communication, each capturing only a …

SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics

L Marconato, G Palla, KA Yamauchi, I Virshup… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spatially resolved omics technologies are transforming our understanding of biological
tissues. However, the handling of uni-and multimodal spatial omics datasets remains a …

An open-source framework for end-to-end analysis of electronic health record data

L Heumos, P Ehmele, T Treis, J Upmeier zu Belzen… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
With progressive digitalization of healthcare systems worldwide, large-scale collection of
electronic health records (EHRs) has become commonplace. However, an extensible …

Map** cells through time and space with moscot

D Klein, G Palla, M Lange, M Klein, Z Piran, M Gander… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Single-cell genomic technologies enable the multimodal profiling of millions of cells across
temporal and spatial dimensions. However, experimental limitations hinder the …

An integrated transcriptomic cell atlas of human neural organoids

Z He, L Dony, JS Fleck, A Szałata, KX Li, I Slišković… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human neural organoids, generated from pluripotent stem cells in vitro, are useful tools to
study human brain development, evolution and disease. However, it is unclear which parts …