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### Updating reference profiles

Cell typing's biggest challenge is using a reference dataset from a different platform. Platform effects between single cell and spatial platforms can be profound.
Insitutype has 3 treatments for reference profiles:
1. Use as-is
2. Choose anchor cells, then rescale genes based on estimated platform effects. (Less aggressive, only fits gene-level effects.)
3. Choose anchor cells, then refit the reference profiles entirely. (Most aggressive, fits a new value for every gene x cell type.)


![image](https://github.com/Nanostring-Biostats/InSituType/assets/4357938/e58f8196-f226-4641-8dfa-bafd9b3dbfae)


### Targeted subclustering


### Choosing nclust
### Which genes to use

Insitutype was designed using 1000-plex CosMx data, where we found it most powerful to use all genes in the panel.
In our new 6000-plex data, it's worth considering using Insitutype on a well-chosen subset of genes. As a rule of thumb, genes should be retained if either of the following applies:
1. They have solidly above-background expression in the CosMx data
2. They have moderate-to-high expression in at least one reference profile

For typical 6000plex experiments, we speculate that cell typing using somewhere between 3000-5000 genes would be optimal.


### Choosing nclust


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