Data integration between weakly linked single-cell modalities is challenging using existing methods. Therefore, we developed MaxFuse to enable matching and integration between cells from modalities such as single-cell spatial proteomic datasets and single-cell transcriptomic datasets, or other modalities where features are only weakly correlated.
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This is a summary of: Chen, S. et al. Integration of spatial and single-cell data across modalities with weakly linked features. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01935-0 (2023).
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MaxFuse enables data integration across weakly linked spatial and single-cell modalities. Nat Biotechnol 42, 1036–1037 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01943-0
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