Just posted a preprint on our new spatial genomic recording system, baseMEMOIR.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Motivation: Cells divide, differentiate, and migrate to form exquisitely organized tissues. Reconstructing the dynamic histories of individual cells, including their lineage relationships and ancestral states, is essential for understanding how intrinsic and extrinsic signals generate tissues during development and in regenerative medicine.
Engineered genomic recording systems can reconstruct cell lineage histories from endpoint measurements. However, existing methods either require sequencing (disrupting spatial organization) or have been limited in memory size and scalability.
To address this need,
@ChadlyDuncan, Kirsten Frieda, and others in the lab created a high memory capacity image-readable recording system termed baseMEMOIR.