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single-cell spatial analysis reveals molecular mechanisms underlying immune cell organization and cancer cell heterogeneity in HPV-associated oropharyngeal carcinoma

GSE290040 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 15 samples Submitted 2026/05/05 Platform GPL24676
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 15 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Head and neck cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
15 samples: 15 × scRNA-seq of HPV-OPSCC; NCIGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
We combined spatial gene expression profiling with single-cell RNA-sequencing to study cellular organization in HPV-associated oropharyngeal carcinoma. The single-cell RNA-sequencing portion of the study is described and provided in this deposition.
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE290040_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1225949 and SRA study SRP565199. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
15 × scRNA-seq of HPV-OPSCC; NCI

Supports a between-group comparison across 15 samples.

How we read this: 1 replicated groups read from 15 sample titles; they account for 15 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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