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FlyAnatoView: Visualization of Drosophila Single-cell RNA-seq Datasets on Anatomographs

Hu, Y.·Kalina, J.·Veal, A.·Ewen-Campen, B.·Porter, T.·Song, J.·Luo, Y.·Huang, K.·Goutte-Gattat, D.·Brown, N. H.·Papatheodorou, I.·Perrimon, N.
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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful approach for measuring the transcriptomic landscape at single-cell resolution. However, while scRNA-seq data reveals what genes each cell expresses, they do not indicate where that cell was located within the tissue or organ, anatomically. We developed FlyAnatoView (https://www.flyrnai.org/tools/rna_seq_base/web/svg_files/), a resource that projects scRNA-seq data onto anatomical diagrams, restoring this missing spatial context.

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Hu, Y., Kalina, J., Veal, A., Ewen-Campen, B., Porter, T., Song, J., Luo, Y., Huang, K., Goutte-Gattat, D., Brown, N. H., Papatheodorou, I., Perrimon, N.. 2026-10-08. FlyAnatoView: Visualization of Drosophila Single-cell RNA-seq Datasets on Anatomographs. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.28.755010

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