SpatialGlue is a tool designed to decipher spatial domains from spatial multi-omics data acquired from a single tissue section. It employes graph neural networks with a dual-attention mechanism to accomplish within-omics integration of measured features and spatial information, followed by cross-omics integration.
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This is a summary of: Long, Y. et al. Deciphering spatial domains from spatial multi-omics with SpatialGlue. Nat. Methods https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02316-4 (2024).
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A machine learning tool for spatial multi-omics. Nat Methods (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02358-8
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