References#

This page provides references for the MuSpAn package and papers that have used MuSpAn. Citing MuSpAn helps us to continue developing the package and supporting the community, so we appreciate your support.

Citing MuSpAn#

If you use MuSpAn in your work, please reference the MuSpAn paper:

MuSpAn: A Multiscale Spatial Analysis Toolbox. Joshua A. Bull, Joshua W. Moore, Shania M. Corry, Muyang Lin, Hayley L. Belnoue-Davis, Eoghan J. Mulholland, Simon J. Leedham and Helen M. Byrne. BioRxiv. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.06.627195

@article{bull2024muspan,
title={MuSpAn: A Toolbox for Multiscale Spatial Analysis},
author={Bull, Joshua A and Moore, Joshua W and Corry, Shania M and Lin, Muyang and Belnoue-Davis, Hayley L and Mulholland, Eoghan J and Leedham, Simon J and Byrne, Helen M},
journal={bioRxiv},
pages={2024--12},
year={2024},
publisher={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}
}

Publications using MuSpAn#

Researchers who have used MuSpAn in their work are encouraged to contact us at info@muspan.co.uk so we can add your publication to the list below. We are always interested in hearing about how MuSpAn is being used in research.

The following papers have used MuSpAn in their study:

  1. Nicholas Fan, Joshua A Bull, and Helen M Byrne. Exploring the relationship between vascular remodelling and tumour growth using agent-based modelling. PLOS Computational Biology, 22(5):e1012967, 2026.

  2. Sydney Leither, Maximilian Strobl, Jacob G Scott, and Emily Dolson. Using spatial statistics to infer game-theoretic interactions in an agent-based model of cancer cells. bioRxiv, pages 2025–07, 2025.

  3. Eoghan J. Mulholland. Holding space for spatial biology. The Biochemist, 47(2):3–6, 05 2025. URL: https://doi.org/10.1042/bio_2025_108.

  4. Eoghan J Mulholland-Illingworth, Joshua W Moore, Muyang Lin, Raheleh Amirkhah, Lucile Grzesiak, Amelia Ligeza, Joshua A Bull, Joseph Boen, Gabriel N Valbuena, Michael A Gillespie, and others. Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumour microenvironment in colorectal cancer. iScience, 2026. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.115193.

  5. Peter Kok-Ting Wan, Ranchu Cheng, David Johnson, Carl Lee, Shihong Wu, Areeb Mian, Ahmet Hazini, Sorayya Moradi, Kate Friesen, Flurin Caviezel, and others. Machine perfusion and single-cell spatial transcriptome mapping identifies novel immune escape mechanisms in colorectal cancer liver metastasis. bioRxiv, pages 2025–12, 2025.

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