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blase

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

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")):
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")

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 Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews CellBasedAssays, CellBiology, GeneExpression, RNASeq, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, TimeCourse, Transcription, Transcriptomics
Version 1.2.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 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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URL https://andrewmccluskey-uog.github.io/blase/
Bug Reports https://andrewmccluskey-uog.github.io/blase/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.2.3), covr, tradeSeq, scran, slingshot, tools, ami, reshape2, plyr, fs, sparseMatrixStats, ggVennDiagram, uwot, BiocStyle, DelayedMatrixStats, limma
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package blase_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) blase_1.2.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) blase_1.2.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) blase_1.2.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/blase
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/blase
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/blase/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/blase/
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