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Banksy

This is the development version of Banksy; for the stable release version, see Banksy.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19

Spatial transcriptomic clustering


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Banksy is an R package that incorporates spatial information to cluster cells in a feature space (e.g. gene expression). To incorporate spatial information, BANKSY computes the mean neighborhood expression and azimuthal Gabor filters that capture gene expression gradients. These features are combined with the cell's own expression to embed cells in a neighbor-augmented product space which can then be clustered, allowing for accurate and spatially-aware cell typing and tissue domain segmentation.

Author: Vipul Singhal [aut], Joseph Lee [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-4983-4714

Maintainer: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee at u.nus.edu>

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

Vipul Singhal, Joseph Lee. Banksy: Spatial transcriptomic clustering. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Banksy, R package version 1.9.4, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Banksy.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

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("Banksy")

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("Banksy")
Clustering via BANKSY matrix construction HTML R Script
Domain segmentation (STARmap PLUS mouse brain) HTML R Script
Multi-sample analysis (10x Visium Human DLPFC) HTML R Script
Parameter selection (VeraFISH Mouse Hippocampus) HTML R Script
Spatial data integration with Harmony (10x Visium Human DLPFC) HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews Clustering, DimensionReduction, GeneExpression, SingleCell, Software, Spatial
Version1.9.4
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.4.0)
Imports aricode, BiocParallel, data.table, dbscan, Rcpp, SpatialExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, stats, Matrix, MatrixGenerics, methods, mclust, igraph, irlba, parallel, leidenAlg (>= 1.1.0), utils, uwot, RcppHungarian, GenomeInfoDb
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/prabhakarlab/Banksy https://prabhakarlab.github.io/Banksy
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/prabhakarlab/Banksy/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, sessioninfo, pals, scuttle, scater, scran, cowplot, ggplot2, testthat (>= 3.0.0), harmony, Seurat, ExperimentHub, spatialLIBD, BiocStyle
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package Banksy_1.9.4.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) Banksy_1.9.4.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) Banksy_1.9.4.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) Banksy_1.9.4.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Banksy
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Banksy
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Banksy/
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