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ScMicrobesAtlas: A comprehensive microbial atlas at single-cell resolution in human disease contexts

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ScMicrobesAtlas: A comprehensive microbial atlas at single-cell resolution in human disease contexts

Liu Jinyang
Hou Rui
Ji Lei
Gong Yue
Li Pan
Liu Peiwen
Dong Jinxin
Guo Hongzhe
Zhang Yun
Xu Junlin
Hui Tingting
Tian Haotian
Liu Yankun
Zhang Meijun
Tian Geng
Yang Jialiang
Genes & Diseases第13卷, 第1期纸质出版 2026-01-01在线发表 2025-03-08
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The microbiome plays a significant role in human health and disease.1 Although bulk tissue analyses have identified disease-specific microbial signatures, these studies do not capture microbial-host cell enrichments and their associations with cell-type-specific activities.2, 3, 4 Thus, we present the Single Cell Microbes Atlas (ScMicrobesAtlas, http://scmbdb.geneis.org.cn:8089), a comprehensive microbial atlas that provides single-cell resolution insights into various human diseases. To date, ScMicrobesAtlas version 1.0 integrates 318 samples from 32 single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, encompassing 21 disease types, and uncovers interactions between 611 bacterial genera and over 1.3 million human cells. All the data were uniformly processed with a standardized workflow, including quality control, batch effect removal, clustering, cell-type annotation, microbial signal identification and quantification, differential expression analysis, and functional enrichment analysis (Fig. 1A). ScMicrobesAtlas facilitates the comparative analysis of microbiome composition and identifies both shared and cell-type-specific microbial enrichments across diverse cell types and disease states. Additionally, it allows users to assess gene expression alterations and pathway activities in specific cell types in response to a particular microbiome. In summary, ScMicrobesAtlas offers a valuable resource for researchers to investigate disease-microbiome associations at the single-cell resolution.

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