作者,Evil Genius
问题一、华大或者10XHD高精度空转可以实现单细胞级别吗?
其实这个问题已经回答过很多次了,我相信大家自己心里也有答案,但是很多学者只测了华大,或者百迈客的高精度空转,因为听宣传说是可以达到单细胞级别,以为这样就可以测一份数据拿到单细胞数据 + 空间位置信息,但是真正分析的时候才发现有很大的问题,事实证明高精度的空转并不能真正实现单细胞级别,原因也很简单。
- 不同细胞类型的大小不一以及细胞的不规则性(典型的神经细胞等)
- 我们的空间样本细胞类型之间很多时候存在间质区域,这些区域并不含有细胞类型
- 高精度那种一刀切的网格对于单细胞级别是不合适的,细胞分布不会乖乖的横平竖直的“躺”在人为设计好的网格内。
问题2、类似华大的高精度空间转录组应该如何注释?
这个问题之前也提到过,最近很多人找我,分析的数据就是华大的空转数据,其中注释部分大家都是合并好bin之后开始用marker注释,这样的效果往往是不理想的,我这里给大家举一个我之前分享的案例,文章在Identification of HSC/MPP expansion units in fetal liver by single-cell spatiotemporal transcriptomics,文章的处理方式是:
Furthermore, to validate the spatial relationship at nearly single-cell resolution, we analyzed the mouse E13.5 FL ST data based on Stereo-seq, which is a sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomic technology with subcellular resolution。we analyzed the mouse E13.5 FL ST data based on Stereo-seq, which is a sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomic technology with subcellular resolution. We defined 20 bins as a spot (10–15 μm in diameter), which may include 1–3 cell(s), and then annotated the spots (including intra-spotsStereo-seq, inter-spotsStereo-seq and other distant spotsStereo-seq) referring to the aforementioned pipeline.
bin20是10-15um,仍然含有大概1-3个细胞,可见大概率情况下,大家bin超过20必然是每个spot含有多个细胞,文章的注释策略是:
To show the spatial organization of principal cell types in an unbiased manner, we performed deconvolution analysis by assigning an enrichment score for each spot with cell type signature genes derived from scRNA-seq. After deconvolution, two spot patterns (first pattern and second pattern) were shown based on the enrichment score of the top two cell types, and then mapped to the original FL region