Bioinformatics • Vol 41 • No 9
Mitigation of multi-scale biases in cell-type deconvolution for spatially resolved transcriptomics using HarmoDecon
August 2025 • Zirui Wang, Ke Xu, Yang Liu, Yu Xu, Lu Zhang
Abstract Motivation The advent of spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) has revolutionized our understanding of tissue molecular microenvironments by enabling the study of gene expression in its spatial context. However, many SRT platforms lack single-cell resolution, necessitating cell-type deconvolution methods to estimate cell-type proportions in SRT spots. Despite advancements in existing tools, these methods have not addressed biases occurring at three scales: individual spots, entire tissue samples, and d…