Team

MERFISHEYES is made at the Cleveland Lab and the Bintu Lab at UC San Diego: a browser-based viewer for spatial transcriptomics, with cells, molecules and the tissue image in one shareable view.

Funding

Funded by Don W. Cleveland

UC San Diego

How to cite

If MERFISHEYES helped your work, please cite the preprint:

Jenie I, Mishkin E, Smith E, Kenney M, Cao-Berg I, Maimon R, Ropelewski AJ, Cleveland DW, Bintu B. MERFISHEYES: Web-based Visualization and Sharing Platform for Single-cell and Single-molecule Spatial Transcriptomics. bioRxiv (2026). doi:10.64898/2026.09.20.753029. bioRxiv
@article{jenie2026merfisheyes,
  title   = {MERFISHEYES: Web-based Visualization and Sharing Platform
             for Single-cell and Single-molecule Spatial Transcriptomics},
  author  = {Jenie, Ignatius and Mishkin, Evan and Smith, Elvis and
             Kenney, Mariah and Cao-Berg, Ivan and Maimon, Roy and
             Ropelewski, Alexander J. and Cleveland, Don W. and Bintu, Bogdan},
  journal = {bioRxiv},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.64898/2026.09.20.753029},
}

Acknowledgements

  • The Brain Image Library, whose datasets are on Explore.
  • MERFISHEYES is open source under the MIT license, and built on open-source work: Next.js, Three.js, AnnData and Zarr readers, and the scverse SpatialData formats.

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Photo of Don W. Cleveland by Flynn Larsen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped. Other photos from the Bintu Lab.