The recent advent of genome-scale imaging has enabled single-cell omics analysis in a spatially resolved manner in intact cells and tissues. These advances allow gene expression profiling of individual cells, and hence in situ identification and spatial mapping of cell types, in complex tissues. The high spatial resolution of these approaches further allows determination of the spatial organizations of the genome and transcriptome inside cells, both of which are key regulatory mechanisms for gene expression.
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I am grateful to J. Moffitt for suggestions and comments on the paper, and to J. Moffitt, B. Bintu and J. Fan for help with figures. This work is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health. X.Z. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
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Zhuang, X. Spatially resolved single-cell genomics and transcriptomics by imaging. Nat Methods 18, 18–22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-01037-8
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