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blase

This is the released version of blase; for the devel version, see blase.

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Bulk Linking Analysis for Single-cell Experiments


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

BLASE is a method for finding where bulk RNA-seq data lies on a single-cell pseudotime trajectory. It uses a fast and understandable approach based on Spearman correlation, with bootstrapping to provide confidence. BLASE can be used to "date" bulk RNA-seq data, annotate cell types in scRNA-seq, and help correct for developmental phenotype differences in bulk RNA-seq experiments.

Author: Andrew McCluskey [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0004-4187-799X , Toby Kettlewell [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0001-1225-3318 , Adrian M. Smith [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-8833-2330 , Rhiannon Kundu [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-3970-5860 , David A. Gunn [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-9866-3221 , Thomas D. Otto [aut, ths] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1246-7404

Maintainer: Andrew McCluskey <2117532m at student.gla.ac.uk>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("blase")):

Andrew McCluskey, Toby Kettlewell, Adrian M. Smith, Rhiannon Kundu, David A. Gunn, Thomas D. Otto. blase: Bulk Linking Analysis for Single-cell Experiments. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.blase, R package version 1.2.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/blase.

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Installation

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

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

BiocManager::install("blase")

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

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("blase")
Assigning bulk RNA-seq to pseudotime HTML R Script
BLASE for annotating scRNA-seq HTML R Script
BLASE for excluding developmental genes from bulk RNA-seq HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews CellBasedAssays, CellBiology, GeneExpression, RNASeq, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, TimeCourse, Transcription, Transcriptomics
Version1.2.1
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.22 (R-4.5) (1 year)
License GPL (>= 3)
Depends R (>= 4.5.0)
Imports SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, ggplot2, viridis, patchwork, Matrix, scater, methods, rlang, BiocParallel, boot, dplyr, mgcv, stats, MatrixGenerics, Seurat (>= 4.0.0), lsa
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URLhttps://andrewmccluskey-uog.github.io/blase/
Bug Reportshttps://andrewmccluskey-uog.github.io/blase/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.2.3), covr, tradeSeq, scran, slingshot, tools, reshape2, plyr, fs, sparseMatrixStats, ggVennDiagram, uwot, BiocStyle, DelayedMatrixStats, limma
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Source Package blase_1.2.1.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) blase_1.2.1.zip
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Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/blase
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/blase
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/blase/
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