Fig. 1: Top 20 ligand–receptor pairs ranked by expression or specificity weighting in the Skelly et al.11 dataset.
From: Predicting cell-to-cell communication networks using NATMI
Ligand-receptor pairs ranked by a expression (product of mean ligand expression level × mean receptor expression level). Rows are scaled by max. b Specificity (product of ligand specificity × receptor specificity). Ligand–receptor pairs with high expression weights (a) may be broadly used by many cell-type pairs, while those with high specificity weights (b) tend to be limited to one or only a few cell-type pairs.
