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SpotClean

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

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16

SpotClean adjusts for spot swapping in spatial transcriptomics data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

SpotClean is a computational method to adjust for spot swapping in spatial transcriptomics data. Recent spatial transcriptomics experiments utilize slides containing thousands of spots with spot-specific barcodes that bind mRNA. Ideally, unique molecular identifiers at a spot measure spot-specific expression, but this is often not the case due to bleed from nearby spots, an artifact we refer to as spot swapping. SpotClean is able to estimate the contamination rate in observed data and decontaminate the spot swapping effect, thus increase the sensitivity and precision of downstream analyses.

Author: Zijian Ni [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-1181-8337 , Christina Kendziorski [ctb]

Maintainer: Zijian Ni <zni25 at wisc.edu>

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

Zijian Ni. SpotClean: SpotClean adjusts for spot swapping in spatial transcriptomics data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SpotClean, R package version 1.15.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpotClean.

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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("SpotClean")

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("SpotClean")
SpotClean HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews DataImport, GeneExpression, Preprocessing, RNASeq, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version1.15.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.16 (R-4.2) (4 years)
License GPL-3
Depends R (>= 4.2.0)
Imports stats, methods, utils, dplyr, S4Vectors, SummarizedExperiment, SpatialExperiment, Matrix, rhdf5, ggplot2, grid, readbitmap, rjson, tibble, viridis, grDevices, RColorBrewer, Seurat, rlang
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URLhttps://github.com/zijianni/SpotClean
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/zijianni/SpotClean/issues
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Source Package SpotClean_1.15.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SpotClean_1.15.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SpotClean_1.15.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SpotClean_1.15.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SpotClean
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SpotClean
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpotClean/
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