Extended Data Fig. 1: Setups for simulation experiment, comparing approaches and evaluation metrics.

(a) Cartoon illustration of simulated data generation. (b) Sequential integration strategies for CCA (left) and StabMAP (right) to work with multiple datasets (Methods). (c) An overview of evaluation metrics for integration and how different metric values reflect different integration results. (d) Calculation steps using the total variation distance to evaluate the multi-dataset alignments.