ORION-FISH

ORION-FISH is developed using the ORION platform. Orion is a method for collecting one-shot and multi-cycle 18-plex immunofluorescence images. Following ORION staining and imaging, a morphology-preserving DNA-FISH assay was applied to the same FFPE section. In this way, ORION-FISH, which integrates high-plex tissue imaging with a morphology-preserving DNA-FISH protocol and single-cell registration/scoring, yielding measurements concordant with clinical FISH. ORION-FISH enables a biology-first approach to spatial genomics: providing a practical, scalable bridge between high-dimensional genotype-phenotype maps and human-interpretable, tissue-based validation. The framework is readily implementable in research laboratories while remaining naturally aligned with clinical pathology workflows. We are applying this method to map chromosomal changes and link aneuploid cells to the immune microenvironment and cancer progression.

About the Data Data Levels

About the Data


Method and Protocol

Learn about the ORION-FISH method by reading:

  • forthcoming

Data Visualization

Full-resolution images can be viewed in a web browser using Minerva:

  • via the gallery (forthcoming)
  • in cBioPortal (forthcoming)

Learn more about the Minerva software at minerva.im.

Data Access

All image data will be accessible from Amazon Web Services (AWS):

  • Levels 1: rcpnl
  • Level 2: OME-TIFF
  • Level 3: OME-TIFF
  • Level 4: csv

For a description of the files see the table below.

About the Samples

The following have been imaged with ORION-FISH:

  • 38 ovarian samples

Instruments

Information forthcoming

About the Data Generators

This data was generated and analyzed by the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.


Data Levels:

Data Type Description File Format Average size (per sample) Data Location
Raw images (Level 1) Collected using ORION rcpnl   AWS
High-plex image data (Level 2) Quality controlled images are assembled into a high-plex whole slide image using the MCMICRO analysis pipeline OME-TIFF 100 GB AWS
Segmentation masks (Level 3) Cell segmentation identifies and separates cell, nucleus, cytoplasm and other regions OME-TIFF 0.5 GB AWS
Single-cell spatial feature tables (Level 4) Summarize the expression of marker intensities and morphological features for each cell csv 1 GB AWS