Datasets:
pretty_name: ST-aggregate
license: other
tags:
- spatial-transcriptomics
- single-cell
- transcriptomics
- biology
- tabular
configs:
- config_name: datasets
data_files: data/datasets.parquet
default: true
- config_name: open_matrix_candidates
data_files: data/open_matrix_candidates.parquet
- config_name: dataset_sources
data_files: data/dataset_sources.parquet
- config_name: sources
data_files: data/sources.parquet
- config_name: rights_statements
data_files: data/rights_statements.parquet
- config_name: source_rights
data_files: data/source_rights.parquet
- config_name: gene_axis
data_files: data/gene_axis.parquet
- config_name: distribution_summary
data_files: data/distribution_summary.parquet
ST-aggregate
ST-aggregate is a rights-aware catalog of human single-cell spatial transcriptomics studies. The public analysis table contains 300 source-backed human datasets representing 200,860,787 cells across CosMx, Xenium, MERFISH, Visium, and related platforms.
Important: this v2 repository is a manually gated federated catalog and rebuild index. It does not host expression matrices, per-cell metadata, coordinates, or images. Obtain those objects from the recorded original sources under their respective terms.
Public views
| View | Datasets | Represented cells |
|---|---|---|
datasets |
300 | 200,860,787 |
| Human assay-aware primary | 299 | 200,361,575 |
Retired empty records, reserved enums, and three organism-unresolved quarantine
records (IDs 15, 68, and 281) are not included. Dataset 133 (499,212 cells)
remains in datasets but has assay_aware_primary_candidate=false because its
official archive does not expose a complete measured-feature axis.
The main table intentionally omits internal lifecycle, release-disposition, row-availability, tombstone/replacement, sparse ontology, model-system, panel, and empty publication-link fields. Detailed provenance and rights remain in normalized relationship tables.
What is hosted
- compact dataset-level assay, organism, tissue, disease, and cell-count metadata;
- 351 links from the 300 datasets to 295 original repository records;
- source URLs, accessions, titles, and organism evidence;
- 246 rights statements and a complete 295-row source-to-rights relation;
- the exact ordered 10,763-gene feature axis;
- CSV mirrors, checksums, schema documentation, and sealed-release provenance.
Distribution tiers
| Tier | Datasets | Represented cells | Public v2 behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
open_matrix_candidate |
90 | 57,498,711 | Source pointer only; eligible for a separately reviewed future mirror |
pointer_rebuild_only |
204 | 141,456,391 | Source pointer and rights metadata only |
pointer_rebuild_only_pending_biostudies_object_equivalence |
6 | 1,905,685 | Pointer only pending equivalence evidence |
open_matrix_candidate is an eligibility classification, not a claim that
the matrix is present here. Every row in matrix_hosted_on_huggingface is
false in this release. Manual Hub approval controls access to the catalog but
does not replace the original sources' terms.
Load
from datasets import load_dataset
datasets = load_dataset("deeeech/ST-aggregate", "datasets", split="train")
sources = load_dataset("deeeech/ST-aggregate", "sources", split="train")
rights = load_dataset("deeeech/ST-aggregate", "rights_statements", split="train")
genes = load_dataset("deeeech/ST-aggregate", "gene_axis", split="train")
Join datasets to dataset_sources by dataset_id, then join to
sources and source_rights by source_id. Join source_rights to
rights_statements by rights_id.
Rights and responsible use
There is no blanket license for the third-party source data. The Hub card uses
license: other because each source retains its own terms. Public availability
is not treated as an open-data license: NOASSERTION and GEO repository policy
records remain pointer/rebuild-only. Review docs/RIGHTS.md and the rights
tables before downloading or redistributing upstream data.
Publication links and citation
All dataset records link to an original repository source. Scholarly-paper DOI and PMID curation is not yet complete, so empty publication-link columns are not included in v2. Repository accessions such as Zenodo record DOIs must not be mistaken for paper citations.
Until ST-aggregate receives a DOI, cite the exact Hugging Face repository revision and cite every upstream study/source used in an analysis.
Integrity
This catalog derives from the immutable canonical-v17 publication candidate.
Its root-manifest SHA-256 is
15e25994d6438c38784df785694a84c6b885e7643cfc1e9ccc9cef2f3dcb7797.
The ordered gene-axis semantic SHA-256 is
44d473c84980b905f96349c9d66eeda0db515d34d667f1969d0a0b0cadf087db.
See release_manifest.json, CHECKSUMS.sha256, docs/SCHEMA.md,
docs/PROVENANCE.md, and docs/LIMITATIONS.md for the complete contract.