diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff index 2945dcb..18d6b02 100644 --- a/CITATION.cff +++ b/CITATION.cff @@ -2,13 +2,26 @@ cff-version: 1.2.0 message: "If you use DeepSpot-M, please cite the following." title: "DeepSpot-M: a multimodal foundation model for transcriptome-wide virtual spatial transcriptomics from histology" abstract: >- - DeepSpot-M is a multimodal foundation model that maps a histology image tile to - spatial gene expression. It tokenises a 224x224 H&E tile with a LoRA-adapted - pathology foundation backbone and lets each gene query attend to the patch tokens - through a cross-attention gene decoder, so one model predicts transcriptome-wide - expression and genes it never saw during training. The code is released under - PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; the model weights carry a separate CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 - license. Research use only, not for clinical or diagnostic use. + Spatial transcriptomics remains costly and low-throughput, limiting it to a small + fraction of routine histology and leaving the molecular state of disease unmeasured + in most patients. Predicting spatial expression from histology could address this + gap, but existing methods are restricted to predefined genes and small cohorts. We + present DeepSpot-M, a multimodal foundation model that predicts spatial expression + by representing genes with embeddings from foundation models spanning DNA, RNA, + proteins, single cells and biomedical text. By reformulating prediction as a query + over genes, DeepSpot-M spans the protein-coding transcriptome and predicts genes + unseen during training. Trained on a large pan-cancer dataset, it transfers to + held-out cancers, outperforming specialised models trained on them, and adapts to + new cohorts and single-cell assays from one slide via test-time adaptation. Applied + to TCGA, it generates a virtual atlas of 28,664 slides across 32 cancers, recovering + a pan-cancer map of malignancy from histology. The same query interface further + enables transcriptome restoration, cross-species non-coding RNA inference, in silico + variant-effect mapping and natural-language querying. We anticipate DeepSpot-M will + provide a scalable foundation for virtual spatial transcriptomics and biomarker + discovery. + Software note: the code is released under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; the model + weights carry a separate CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license. Research use only, not for + clinical or diagnostic use. authors: - family-names: Nonchev given-names: Kalin