To cite DenMark in publications, please use the paper:

  Xu M, Schmidt AM, Zhang Q (2026). DenMark: A Bayesian Hierarchical
  Model for Identifying Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial
  Transcriptomics. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.04.02.713482. Preprint;
  the revised manuscript is under review at Cell Reports Methods.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{xu2026denmark,
    title = {{DenMark}: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Identifying Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics},
    author = {Mingchi Xu and Alexandra M. Schmidt and Qihuang Zhang},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    year = {2026},
    doi = {10.64898/2026.04.02.713482},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.02.713482},
    note = {Preprint; the revised manuscript is under review at Cell Reports Methods},
  }

and, for the software:

  Xu M, Schmidt AM, Zhang Q (2026). DenMark: Cell-Density Correlated
  Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics. R package version 0.9.0.
  https://github.com/StaGill/DenMark

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{denmark2026software,
    title = {{DenMark}: Cell-Density Correlated Genes from Spatial Transcriptomics},
    author = {Mingchi Xu and Alexandra M. Schmidt and Qihuang Zhang},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.9.0},
    url = {https://github.com/StaGill/DenMark},
  }