Spatial biology: a collaboration between the biological sciences and information technologies
The first patent for spatial biology was filed in 2000 for a technique called Spatial Analysis of Genomic Activity (SAGA), which received a US patent in 2009. This technique dates back to the 1990s and the launch of the Visible Embryo Project (VEP) [1], which Mike Doyle (now the Vice President of Research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM, USA) created and led for over 15 years. Here, Mike shares how the VEP led to the advent of spatial genomics and considers the computational advancements that were needed to manage the large datasets required for spatial...
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