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MultiAssaySpatialExperiment

This is the development version of MultiAssaySpatialExperiment; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

Multi-Assay Experiment with Spatial Context


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Extends MultiAssayExperiment with spatial context elements (images, labels, points, shapes) for integrative analysis of spatially resolved multi-omics data. Supports coercion to and from SpatialExperiment and SpatialFeatureExperiment.

Author: Patrick Aboyoun [aut, cre], Genentech, Inc. [cph]

Maintainer: Patrick Aboyoun <aboyounp at gene.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("MultiAssaySpatialExperiment")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("MultiAssaySpatialExperiment")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

Reference Manual PDF

Details

biocViews DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software, Spatial
Version 0.99.12
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.6.0), methods, MultiAssayExperiment
Imports tools, BiocGenerics, BiocParallel, S4Vectors, MatrixGenerics, SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment, sf
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/Genentech/MultiAssaySpatialExperiment
Bug Reports https://github.com/Genentech/MultiAssaySpatialExperiment/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat, arrow, DropletUtils, jsonlite, sfarrow, terra, ggplot2, Matrix, RBioFormats, SpatialFeatureExperiment, spdep, zellkonverter
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