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The DenMark manuscript is under review at Cell Reports Methods. If you use DenMark in your research, please cite the preprint:

Xu M, Schmidt AM, Zhang Q. DenMark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Identifying Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics. bioRxiv, 2026. doi: 10.64898/2026.04.02.713482

GitHub’s “Cite this repository” button uses the CITATION.cff file in the repository. In R, citation() gives the reference for the paper and for the installed version of the package:

citation("DenMark")
## To cite DenMark in publications, please use the paper:
## 
##   Xu M, Schmidt AM, Zhang Q (2026). DenMark: A Bayesian Hierarchical
##   Model for Identifying Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial
##   Transcriptomics. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.04.02.713482. Preprint;
##   the revised manuscript is under review at Cell Reports Methods.
## 
## and, for the software:
## 
##   Xu M, Schmidt AM, Zhang Q (2026). DenMark: Cell-Density Correlated
##   Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics. R package version 0.9.0.
##   https://github.com/StaGill/DenMark
## 
## To see these entries in BibTeX format, use 'print(<citation>,
## bibtex=TRUE)', 'toBibtex(.)', or set
## 'options(citation.bibtex.max=999)'.

BibTeX

@article{xu2026denmark,
  title   = {{DenMark}: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Identifying Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics},
  author  = {Xu, Mingchi and Schmidt, Alexandra M. and Zhang, Qihuang},
  journal = {bioRxiv},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.64898/2026.04.02.713482},
  note    = {Preprint; the revised manuscript is under review at Cell Reports Methods}
}

Corresponding authors

Alexandra M. Schmidt () and Qihuang Zhang (, lead contact)
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1Y7, Canada