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license: GPL-3.0-or-later
title: 'SpaTalk: Spatially Resolved Cell-Cell Communication Inference for Spatial
  Transcriptomics'
version: 2.0.0
doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32111-8
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SpaTalk
abstract: Infers spatially resolved cell-cell communications from spatial transcriptomics
  data using graph network and knowledge graph approaches. Supports both single-cell
  resolution and spot-based spatial transcriptomics platforms. Provides cell type
  deconvolution, ligand-receptor interaction analysis, and downstream pathway inference.
authors:
- family-names: Liu
  given-names: Zaoqu
  email: liuzaoqu@163.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-742X
- family-names: Shao
  given-names: Xin
  email: xin_shao@zju.edu.cn
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1928-3878
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: Knowledge-graph-based cell-cell communication inference for spatially resolved
    transcriptomic data with SpaTalk
  authors:
  - family-names: Shao
    given-names: Xin
    email: xin_shao@zju.edu.cn
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1928-3878
  - family-names: Li
    given-names: Chengyu
  - family-names: Yang
    given-names: Haihong
  - family-names: Lu
    given-names: Xiaoyan
  - family-names: Liao
    given-names: Jie
  - family-names: Qian
    given-names: Jingyang
  - family-names: Wang
    given-names: Kai
  - family-names: Cheng
    given-names: Junyun
  - family-names: Yang
    given-names: Penghui
  - family-names: Chen
    given-names: Huajun
  - family-names: Xu
    given-names: Xiao
  - family-names: Fan
    given-names: Xiaohui
  journal: Nature Communications
  year: '2022'
  volume: '13'
  doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32111-8
  url: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32111-8
  start: '4429'
repository: https://zaoqu-liu.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/Zaoqu-Liu/SpaTalk
commit: a89213471656e1d7c846e47ed0ceab8e4348534e
url: https://zaoqu-liu.github.io/SpaTalk/
date-released: '2026-01-23'
contact:
- family-names: Liu
  given-names: Zaoqu
  email: liuzaoqu@163.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-742X