Table 1.

Correspondence between L–R scoring used in this study and previous tools

L–R scoring used in this study	Previous tools
Sum score	CellPhoneDB [37], Giotto [61], CrossTalkR [62], and Squidpy [63]
Product score	NATME [64], FunRes [65], ICELLNET [66], and TraSig [67]
Halpern’s score	Halpern et al.
Cabello $-$ Aguilar’s score	SingleCellSignalR [69] and CellTalkDB [70]