Cross-modal spatial alignment visualization

Develop visualization methods for jointly aligning and representing transcriptomics, proteomics, and imaging data in spatial biological analyses.

Background

Cross-modal alignment is identified as the least-represented task in the surveyed corpus, with only one qualifying paper. Existing approaches commonly display multimodal data as parallel embedding plots rather than providing a general visual solution for jointly aligned spatial modalities. The authors explicitly identify cross-modal spatial alignment as an unresolved design gap because integrating transcriptomics, proteomics, and imaging is biologically important.

References

Rather than trying to infer a general pattern from a single publication, we flag cross-modal spatial alignment as an open design gap.

— How Do We Visualize Space in Molecular Biology? A Study of Spatial Transcriptomics Visualization Practices  (2609.20324 - Chacón-Ramírez et al., 17 Sep 2026) in Section 4.6, subsection “Cross-Modal Alignment”