- Mah, Clarence K;
- Ahmed, Noorsher;
- Lopez, Nicole A;
- Lam, Dylan C;
- Pong, Avery;
- Monell, Alexander;
- Kern, Colin;
- Han, Yuanyuan;
- Prasad, Gino;
- Cesnik, Anthony J;
- Lundberg, Emma;
- Zhu, Quan;
- Carter, Hannah;
- Yeo, Gene W
The spatial organization of molecules in a cell is essential for their functions. While current methods focus on discerning tissue architecture, cell-cell interactions, and spatial expression patterns, they are limited to the multicellular scale. We present Bento, a Python toolkit that takes advantage of single-molecule information to enable spatial analysis at the subcellular scale. Bento ingests molecular coordinates and segmentation boundaries to perform three analyses: defining subcellular domains, annotating localization patterns, and quantifying gene-gene colocalization. We demonstrate MERFISH, seqFISH + , Molecular Cartography, and Xenium datasets. Bento is part of the open-source Scverse ecosystem, enabling integration with other single-cell analysis tools.