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Xiaobo Sun

Emory UniversityORCID 0000-0001-9876-5666Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 2 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Yucheng XuiD· 2 shared Hao WuiD· 1 shared Hao WuiD· 1 shared Jing CheniD· 1 shared Kaichen XuiD· 1 shared Mengqian HuangiD· 1 shared Mengqian HuangiD· 1 shared Nina XieiD· 1 shared

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GenomicsGenomics Proteomics & BioinformaticsPeer-reviewedJul 1, 2025

LEGEND: Identifying Co-expressed Genes in Multimodal Transcriptomic Sequencing Data

Tao Deng, Mengqian Huang, Kaichen Xu…·Xiaobo Sun

LEGEND integrates scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic data to identify co-expressed gene groups, revealing spatial coherence and context-specific gene functions.

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scRNA-seqspatial transcriptomics

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintJun 7, 2024

Learning context-aware, distributed gene representations in spatial transcriptomics with SpaCEX

Xiaobo Sun, Yucheng Xu, Wenlin Li…·Hao Wu

SpaCEX generates context-aware gene embeddings from spatial transcriptomics data, enabling improved downstream analyses like disease gene identification and spatial pattern detection.

DOI 10.1101/2024.06.07.598026

humanspatial transcriptomics

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