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.
Ignatius Kresnathan Sjahnir Jeniea.k.a. "KJ", "Jenie", "Kresna"Founder
Evan MishkinLead Developer
Elvis SmithLead Software & Pipeline EngineerPrincipal Investigators
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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