Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering

Jieran Sun, Kirti Biharie, Peiying Cai, Niklas Müller-Bötticher, Paul Kiessling, Meghan A. Turner, Søren Helweg Dam, Florian Heyl, Sarusan Kathirchelvan, Martin Emons, Samuel Gunz, Sven Twardziok, Amin El-Heliebi, Martin Zacharias, Unknown, Søren Helweg Dam, Fadhl Alakwaa, Shahul Alam, María Calleja, Yuzhou Chang, Thomas Chartrand, Nigel S. Chou, Estella Y. Dong, Michael Fletcher, George Gavriilidis, Alexander Kanitz, Sameesh Kher, Louis Kümmerle, Francesca A. Luongo, Qirong Mao, Giorgia Moranzoni, Mar M. Moreno, Anastasiia Okhtienko, Lena Perry, Lucie Pfeiferova, Daryna Pikulska, Shyam Prabhakar, Rasool Saghaleyni, Zaira Seferbekova, Vipul Singhal, Divya Sitani, Charlotte Soneson, Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Marco Varrone, Siao-Han Wong, Liya Zaygerman, Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa, Roland Eils, Marcel Reinders, Raphael Gottardo, Christoph Kuppe, Brian Long, Ahmed Mahfouz, Mark D. Robinson, Naveed Ishaque

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DOI: 10.1038/s41592-026-03194-8
Published: 2026-08-24
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@article{allodium:10.1038/s41592-026-03194-8,
  title = {Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering},
  author = {Jieran Sun and Kirti Biharie and Peiying Cai and Niklas Müller-Bötticher and Paul Kiessling and Meghan A. Turner and Søren Helweg Dam and Florian Heyl and Sarusan Kathirchelvan and Martin Emons and Samuel Gunz and Sven Twardziok and Amin El-Heliebi and Martin Zacharias and Unknown and Søren Helweg Dam and Fadhl Alakwaa and Shahul Alam and María Calleja and Yuzhou Chang and Thomas Chartrand and Nigel S. Chou and Estella Y. Dong and Michael Fletcher and George Gavriilidis and Alexander Kanitz and Sameesh Kher and Louis Kümmerle and Francesca A. Luongo and Qirong Mao and Giorgia Moranzoni and Mar M. Moreno and Anastasiia Okhtienko and Lena Perry and Lucie Pfeiferova and Daryna Pikulska and Shyam Prabhakar and Rasool Saghaleyni and Zaira Seferbekova and Vipul Singhal and Divya Sitani and Charlotte Soneson and Sebastian Tiesmeyer and Marco Varrone and Siao-Han Wong and Liya Zaygerman and Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa and Roland Eils and Marcel Reinders and Raphael Gottardo and Christoph Kuppe and Brian Long and Ahmed Mahfouz and Mark D. Robinson and Naveed Ishaque},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Nature Methods},
  doi = {10.1038/s41592-026-03194-8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03194-8}
}

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AU  - Kirti Biharie
AU  - Peiying Cai
AU  - Niklas Müller-Bötticher
AU  - Paul Kiessling
AU  - Meghan A. Turner
AU  - Søren Helweg Dam
AU  - Florian Heyl
AU  - Sarusan Kathirchelvan
AU  - Martin Emons
AU  - Samuel Gunz
AU  - Sven Twardziok
AU  - Amin El-Heliebi
AU  - Martin Zacharias
AU  - Unknown
AU  - Søren Helweg Dam
AU  - Fadhl Alakwaa
AU  - Shahul Alam
AU  - María Calleja
AU  - Yuzhou Chang
AU  - Thomas Chartrand
AU  - Nigel S. Chou
AU  - Estella Y. Dong
AU  - Michael Fletcher
AU  - George Gavriilidis
AU  - Alexander Kanitz
AU  - Sameesh Kher
AU  - Louis Kümmerle
AU  - Francesca A. Luongo
AU  - Qirong Mao
AU  - Giorgia Moranzoni
AU  - Mar M. Moreno
AU  - Anastasiia Okhtienko
AU  - Lena Perry
AU  - Lucie Pfeiferova
AU  - Daryna Pikulska
AU  - Shyam Prabhakar
AU  - Rasool Saghaleyni
AU  - Zaira Seferbekova
AU  - Vipul Singhal
AU  - Divya Sitani
AU  - Charlotte Soneson
AU  - Sebastian Tiesmeyer
AU  - Marco Varrone
AU  - Siao-Han Wong
AU  - Liya Zaygerman
AU  - Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa
AU  - Roland Eils
AU  - Marcel Reinders
AU  - Raphael Gottardo
AU  - Christoph Kuppe
AU  - Brian Long
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Sun, J., Biharie, K., Cai, P., Müller-Bötticher, N., Kiessling, P., Turner, M. A., Dam, S. H., Heyl, F., Kathirchelvan, S., Emons, M., Gunz, S., Twardziok, S., El-Heliebi, A., Zacharias, M., Unknown, Dam, S. H., Alakwaa, F., Alam, S., Calleja, M., Chang, Y., Chartrand, T., Chou, N. S., Dong, E. Y., Fletcher, M., Gavriilidis, G., Kanitz, A., Kher, S., Kümmerle, L., Luongo, F. A., Mao, Q., Moranzoni, G., Moreno, M. M., Okhtienko, A., Perry, L., Pfeiferova, L., Pikulska, D., Prabhakar, S., Saghaleyni, R., Seferbekova, Z., Singhal, V., Sitani, D., Soneson, C., Tiesmeyer, S., Varrone, M., Wong, S., Zaygerman, L., Zulueta-Coarasa, T., Eils, R., Reinders, M., Gottardo, R., Kuppe, C., Long, B., Mahfouz, A., Robinson, M. D., & Ishaque, N. (2026). Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering. Nature Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03194-8

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