Spatial Touchstone may be 1 of the most important recent efforts in spatial biology.
Led by Dr. Jasmine Plummer, Director of Center for Spatial Omics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, this collaborative initiative aims to standardize imaging-based spatial transcriptomics through reproducible workflows, quality metrics, and cross-platform comparisons.
🎥 In today’s video, I break down in simple language 😉 this Nature Biotechnology paper. 👇
Plummer, J.T., Dezem, F.S., Cook, D.P. et al. Standardized metrics for assessment and reproducibility of imaging-based spatial transcriptomics datasets. Nat Biotechnol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02811-9
I tell you why it matters and how it could improve the way we assess quality, reproducibility, and confidence in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics data.
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