Spatial omics enables the molecular profiling of cells with the tissue context preserved. A new analytic approach shows how cellular neighborhood analysis and feature augmentation can spatially connect and cluster millions of cells into higher-order functional units.
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M.J.R. is supported by a Wings for Life Project Grant and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (1163835). Q.N. is supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Award (DE190100116), NHMRC Investigator Grant (GNT2008928) and NHMRC Project Grant (2001514).
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Ruitenberg, M.J., Nguyen, Q.H. Cellular neighborhood analysis in spatial omics reveals new tissue domains and cell subtypes. Nat Genet 56, 362–364 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01646-x
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