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MoleculeExperiment

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

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17

Prioritising a molecule-level storage of Spatial Transcriptomics Data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

MoleculeExperiment contains functions to create and work with objects from the new MoleculeExperiment class. We introduce this class for analysing molecule-based spatial transcriptomics data (e.g., Xenium by 10X, Cosmx SMI by Nanostring, and Merscope by Vizgen). This allows researchers to analyse spatial transcriptomics data at the molecule level, and to have standardised data formats accross vendors.

Author: Bárbara Zita Peters Couto [aut], Nicholas Robertson [aut], Ellis Patrick [aut], Shila Ghazanfar [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Shila Ghazanfar <shazanfar at gmail.com>

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

Bárbara Zita Peters Couto, Nicholas Robertson, Ellis Patrick, Shila Ghazanfar. MoleculeExperiment: Prioritising a molecule-level storage of Spatial Transcriptomics Data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MoleculeExperiment, R package version 1.13.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/MoleculeExperiment.

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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("MoleculeExperiment")

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("MoleculeExperiment")
"Introduction to MoleculeExperiment" HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews DataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version1.13.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.17 (R-4.3) (3.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports SpatialExperiment, Matrix, purrr, data.table, dplyr (>= 1.1.1), magrittr, rjson, utils, methods, terra, ggplot2, rlang, cli, EBImage, rhdf5, BiocParallel, S4Vectors, stats
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URLhttps://github.com/SydneyBioX/MoleculeExperiment
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/SydneyBioX/MoleculeExperiment/issues
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