Imaging multi-omics: DNA seqFISH+¶
DNA seqFISH+ with sequential immunofluorescence and RNA FISH (Takei et al. 2021, 2025) measures, in the
same nucleus, where thousands of loci are and what they carry: dozens of chromatin marks and nuclear
bodies per spot, transcripts per cell, the cell’s position in the tissue. In a ChromData the spots
carry coordinates and per-spot signals (spot_tracks), the cells carry their type, position and
expression (cells, cellm), and the transcript matrix can stay in its own AnnData, linked by cell.
Step |
API |
|---|---|
read the per-FOV spot tables with the locus map and the cell clustering |
|
a whole replicate, with the RNA matrix as a linked AnnData |
|
the Takei 2021 tables as FOF-CT (DNA, RNA spots, cells) |
|
cell positions and outlines in the tissue |
|
the full Takei 2025 cerebellum without downloading it |
|
Tutorials¶
Then¶
The spots are coordinates with signals, so the common analyses apply as for chromatin tracing. Two are specific to the extra layers:
Signals along the genome: peaks of a chromatin mark in the spot signals, signals summed over intervals, annotation and sequence content — per-locus features (its tutorial calls H3K4me3 peaks on chromosome 19 of the cerebellum data).
Which cells are alike: cell embeddings from the chromatin marks (per-cell means or the mark–mark correlations within a cell) or from RNA — cells & embeddings.
The web browser shows the cells in their tissue, each cell’s traces in 3-D coloured by any mark, and the marks along the genome.
API: uchrom.io.