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GenOT: Generative optimal transport enables spatiotemporal interpolation and generation in cross-platform spatial transcriptomics

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Overview

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies have revolutionized the analysis of spatial gene expression patterns within tissues. However, existing computational methods still face challenges in integrating spatial information and generating cross-heterogeneous sample data. To address this, we developed GenOT - a spatial data generation framework based on graph self-supervised contrastive learning and optimal transport theory. The framework employs a multimodal feature learning architecture to dynamically identify important genes and hierarchically aggregate spatial neighborhood information, achieving high-precision spatial domain clustering and biologically interpretable feature extraction. The core innovation of GenOT lies in introducing an optimal transport barycenter-based interpolation algorithm, which mathematically models cross-sample spatial distribution differences to reconstruct spatiotemporal continuous gene expression dynamics. Experiments on multiple datasets including human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (10x visium), mouse embryonic development (Stereo-seq), and olfactory bulb/hippocampal tissues (Slide-seqV2) demonstrate that GenOT significantly outperforms existing methods in spatial domain identification, cross-technology platform integration, and developmental trajectory reconstruction. This provides an innovative tool for tissue structure analysis at single-cell resolution and developmental process modeling.

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