SYLARAS
SYLARAS profiles systemic immune architecture by integrating multiplex immunophenotyping with advanced biological computation to convert single-cell datasets into comprehensive visual representations of temporal and spatial immune cell dynamics.
Key Features:
- Multiplex immunophenotyping integration: Integrates multiplex immunophenotyping data with computational analysis to enable multi-parameter immune profiling.
- Advanced biological computation: Applies advanced biological computation to transform single-cell datasets into visual summaries of immune dynamics.
- Single-cell dataset visualization: Produces comprehensive visual representations of temporal and spatial changes in immune cell populations.
- Temporal and spatial profiling: Profiles frequencies and functions of immune cells across tissues over time.
- Multi-lymphoid tissue aggregation: Aggregates datasets from primary and secondary lymphoid organs and other tissues to examine systemic and local immune architecture.
- Tumor microenvironment analysis: Compares immune cell frequencies within tumors and lymphoid organs to detect systemic changes induced by disease models such as syngeneic glioblastoma (GBM) in mice.
- Cell-subset detection: Detects and quantifies alterations in immune cell architecture, including identification of CD45R/B220+ CD8+ T cell redistribution.
- Cross-context applicability: Supports analysis of immune responses to tumor models, infectious diseases, autoimmune conditions, vaccines, and immunotherapies.
Scientific Applications:
- Cancer immune response profiling: Analyzes immune cell frequencies across primary and secondary lymphoid organs and the tumor microenvironment in syngeneic glioblastoma (GBM) mouse models.
- Comparative systemic immune profiling: Tracks systemic immune responses across tumor models, infectious diseases, autoimmune conditions, vaccines, and immunotherapies.
- Temporal and spatial immune dynamics: Visualizes how immune cell frequencies and functions change over time and across tissues.
- Identification and validation of redistributed cell subsets: Identifies subsets such as CD45R/B220+ CD8+ T cells that are depleted from circulation and accumulate in tumors, corroborated by multiplexed immunofluorescence microscopy.
Methodology:
Integrates multiplex immunophenotyping data from multiple lymphoid tissues and applies advanced biological computation to convert single-cell datasets into visual representations of temporal and spatial immune cell dynamics.
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Details
- License:
- MIT
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Added:
- 1/18/2021
- Last Updated:
- 2/24/2021
Operations
Publications
Baker GJ, Muhlich JL, Palaniappan SK, Moore JK, Davis SH, Santagata S, Sorger PK. SYLARAS: A Platform for the Statistical Analysis and Visual Display of Systemic Immunoprofiling Data and Its Application to Glioblastoma. Cell Systems. 2020;11(3):272-285.e9. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2020.08.001. PMID:32898474. PMCID:PMC7565356.