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About SpatialDM

SpatialDM (Spatial Direct Messaging, or Spatial co-expressed ligand and receptor Detected by Moran’s bivariant extension) is a statistical model and toolbox to identify the spatial co-expression (i.e., spatial association) between a pair of ligand and receptor.

Uniquely, SpatialDM can distinguish co-expressed ligand and receptor pairs from spatially separating pairs, and identify the spots of interaction.

https://github.com/StatBiomed/SpatialDM/blob/main/docs/.figs/AvsB-1.png?raw=true

With the analytical testing method, SpatialDM is scalable to 1 million spots within 12 min with only one core.

https://github.com/StatBiomed/SpatialDM/blob/main/docs/.figs/runtime_aug16-1.png?raw=true
SpatialDM comprises two main steps:
  1. global selection with spatialdm_global to identify significantly interacting LR pairs;

  2. local selection with spatialdm_local to identify local spots for each interaction.

Please refer to our tutorials for details:

References

SpatialDM manuscript with more details is available on bioRxiv now and is currently under review.