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Visium CytAssist mouse brain ​

A 10x Visium CytAssist fresh-frozen mouse brain section: 4,881 spots on the CytAssist image, and the smallest of the demos.

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Things to try ​

  • Read the structure off the colors. The cellular neighborhoods come out as concentric bands across the section. Nothing told the clustering where the tissue's layers are; it recovered them from expression alone.
  • Toggle the image. View → Show image, then back, to check the boundaries against the tissue itself.
  • Switch to Leiden. Cells → Color by → leiden, and compare it against cellular_neighborhood: one clusters spots by their own expression, the other by the mix of Leiden clusters in each spot's 20 nearest neighbors.
  • Open the Embeddings view. Both a UMAP and a PCA are stored; the Embedding dropdown switches between them, and the X/Y selectors pick which components to plot.

What is not in it ​

As with the other demos, the expression matrix was dropped when the checkpoint was downsampled for the web, so there is no color-by-gene. The obs columns, the embeddings and the image are all intact.