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Dynamic analysis of gastruloids on microraft array (DAGOMR)

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Abstract

Two-dimensional human gastruloids are a reproducible and scalable model system to study aspects of early embryonic development. However, the heterogeneity of single gastruloids, which consist of multiple cells that self-organize into different tissue layers, cultured under homogenous conditions have yet to be quantified. The microraft array platform was used to capture time-series imaging of SOX2 dynamics in developing gastruloids and to isolate individual gastruloids for downstream RNA-sequencing. Low-dimensional latent representations were constructed from the imaging time-series of each gastruloid to quantify the emergence of various patterning behaviors across and within experimental batches. The heterogenous gene expression profiles of sequenced gastruloids were also dissected by experimental batch. Imaging and sequencing appeared to provide orthogonal information, thus more robust computational approaches are likely required to decipher the complex relationship between the data modalities. The heterogeneity of gastruloids, in addition to other multicellular models, calls for careful experimental design considerations.