Deciphering cell–cell interactions and communication from gene expression

E Armingol, A Officer, O Harismendy… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell–cell interactions orchestrate organismal development, homeostasis and single-cell
functions. When cells do not properly interact or improperly decode molecular messages …

Recent developments in application of single-cell RNA sequencing in the tumour immune microenvironment and cancer therapy

PH Li, XY Kong, YZ He, Y Liu, X Peng, ZH Li… - Military Medical …, 2022 - Springer
The advent of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has provided insight into the tumour
immune microenvironment (TIME). This review focuses on the application of scRNA-seq in …

Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat

S Jin, CF Guerrero-Juarez, L Zhang, I Chang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding global communications among cells requires accurate representation of cell-
cell signaling links and effective systems-level analyses of those links. We construct a …

Evaluation of cell-cell interaction methods by integrating single-cell RNA sequencing data with spatial information

Z Liu, D Sun, C Wang - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Cell-cell interactions are important for information exchange between different
cells, which are the fundamental basis of many biological processes. Recent advances in …

CellTalkDB: a manually curated database of ligand–receptor interactions in humans and mice

X Shao, J Liao, C Li, X Lu, J Cheng… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cell–cell communications in multicellular organisms generally involve secreted ligand–
receptor (LR) interactions, which is vital for various biological phenomena. Recent …

Revealing the transcriptional heterogeneity of organ‐specific metastasis in human gastric cancer using single‐cell RNA sequencing

H Jiang, D Yu, P Yang, R Guo, M Kong… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Deciphering intra‐and inter‐tumoural heterogeneity is essential for
understanding the biology of gastric cancer (GC) and its metastasis and identifying effective …

The diversification of methods for studying cell–cell interactions and communication

E Armingol, HM Baghdassarian, NE Lewis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
No cell lives in a vacuum, and the molecular interactions between cells define most
phenotypes. Transcriptomics provides rich information to infer cell–cell interactions and …

Knowledge-graph-based cell-cell communication inference for spatially resolved transcriptomic data with SpaTalk

X Shao, C Li, H Yang, X Lu, J Liao, J Qian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatially resolved transcriptomics provides genetic information in space toward elucidation
of the spatial architecture in intact organs and the spatially resolved cell-cell …

Uncovering an organ's molecular architecture at single-cell resolution by spatially resolved transcriptomics

J Liao, X Lu, X Shao, L Zhu, X Fan - Trends in biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Revealing fine-scale cellular heterogeneity among spatial context and the functional and
structural foundations of tissue architecture is fundamental within biological research and …

Cell–cell communication inference and analysis in the tumour microenvironments from single-cell transcriptomics: data resources and computational strategies

L Peng, F Wang, Z Wang, J Tan, L Huang… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Carcinomas are complex ecosystems composed of cancer, stromal and immune cells.
Communication between these cells and their microenvironments induces cancer …