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. 2020 Feb;17(2):159-162.
doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0667-5. Epub 2019 Dec 9.

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

Robin Browaeys  1   2 , Wouter Saelens  1   2 , Yvan Saeys  3   4
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NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

Robin Browaeys et al. Nat Methods. 2020 Feb.

Abstract

Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github.com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a method that predicts ligand-target links between interacting cells by combining their expression data with prior knowledge on signaling and gene regulatory networks. We applied NicheNet to tumor and immune cell microenvironment data and demonstrate that NicheNet can infer active ligands and their gene regulatory effects on interacting cells.

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