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Marco Varrone

SIB Swiss Institute of BioinformaticsORCID 0000-0002-0538-3464Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Cancer Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:clustering· 2 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 2 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1

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Albert Santamaria‐MartíneziD· 2 shared Daniele TavernariiD· 2 shared Giovanni CirielloiD· 2 shared Ahmed Essam MahfouziD· 1 shared Alexander KanitziD· 1 shared Amin El HeliebiiD· 1 shared Anastasiia OkhtienkoiD· 1 shared Anne Cairoli· 1 shared

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2023-2026 · peak 1/yr

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10 top collaborators · 21 mutual co-author links

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GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewedAug 24, 2026

Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering

Jieran Sun, Kirti Biharie, Peiying Cai…·Naveed Ishaque

The paper introduces SACCELERATOR, a framework for spatially aware clustering that improves benchmarking by incorporating expert feedback and consensus analysis across diverse datasets.

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humanmouse

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Cancer BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedDec 9, 2024

Patient-derived lymphomoids preserve the tumor architecture and allow to assess response to therapies in lymphoma

Albert Santamaria‐Martínez, Justine Epiney, Divyanshu Srivastava…·Elisa Oricchio

This study develops lymphomoids from patient lymphoma samples to assess therapy response, showing consistency with clinical outcomes.

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humanbulk RNA-seq

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BioinformaticsNature GeneticsPeer-reviewedDec 8, 2023

CellCharter reveals spatial cell niches associated with tissue remodeling and cell plasticity.

Marco Varrone, Daniele Tavernari, Albert Santamaria‐Martínez…·Giovanni Ciriello

CellCharter identifies and characterizes spatial cellular niches across diverse datasets, revealing tumor-associated neutrophil and cancer cell interactions linked to poor prognosis in lung cancer.

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humanspatial transcriptomics

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