Abstract: Method for determining tissue positions using an array, which comprise location sequences, the location sequences bind to the tissue samples via ligands. The tissue section which allows localisation tags to be assigned to areas of the tissue comprising a single or plurality of cells or organelles, e.g. about two to ten cells. By triangulation of the localisation tags it is possible to assign a unique relative position in the tissue per cell or organelle.

Abstract: A method for identifying cognate pairs of a ligand species and a receptor species includes co-compartmentalizing ligand species and receptor species, forming a set of microreactors, each microreactor including a ligand species and preferably a receptor species; assaying the recognition between ligands and receptors in each microreactor and based on this assay, classifying each microreactor as positive when a ligand species and receptor species in the microreactor recognize one with the other or negative when no ligand species and no receptor species recognize in the microreactor; identifying ligand species and receptor species contained in each positive microreactor; establishing a subset of positive microreactors containing the same receptor species; determining the probability that the ligand species recognizing the receptor species corresponds to the most frequent co-compartmentalized ligand species.