Spatial transcriptomic characterization of COVID-19 pneumonitis identifies immune circuits related to tissue injury

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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: Ethics statement: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Navarra, Spain (15/05/2020) and the Medical Sciences Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee of the University of Oxford (Approval R76045/RE001).
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    RandomizationDifferential gene expression and over-representation analysis: Differential gene expression was calculated for each gene between areas of mild/moderate and severe alveolar damage using linear mixed models (fixed effect: severity, random variable: patient identity).
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Analysis of immunofluorescent images for cell counts: The number of nuclei, CD3+ and CD68+ cell counts were determined using CellProfiler software.
    CellProfiler
    suggested: None
    We therefore corrected the quantile normalized expression values for this technical factor using Limma “removeBatchEffect” function.
    Limma
    suggested: (LIMMA, RRID:SCR_010943)
    Over-representation analysis for Gene Ontology Biological Processes
    Ontology Biological
    suggested: None
    The over-representation of Gene Ontology (GO) categories, KEGG pathways and Reactome pathways in module gene members was tested using one-sided Fishers exact tests (https://github.com/sansomlab/gsfisher) using the union of gene members from all the modules as the background geneset.
    Reactome
    suggested: (Reactome, RRID:SCR_003485)
    Immune signalling genes from the KEGG ‘cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction’ pathway (hsa04060) (human) were included if they i) correlated with the positively expressed gene modules for a given spatial group and ii) showed a median expression above the expression detection threshold (as defined in the pre-processing section) in a given AOI group.
    KEGG
    suggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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