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CARDspa

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

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

Spatially Informed Cell Type Deconvolution for Spatial Transcriptomics


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

CARD is a reference-based deconvolution method that estimates cell type composition in spatial transcriptomics based on cell type specific expression information obtained from a reference scRNA-seq data. A key feature of CARD is its ability to accommodate spatial correlation in the cell type composition across tissue locations, enabling accurate and spatially informed cell type deconvolution as well as refined spatial map construction. CARD relies on an efficient optimization algorithm for constrained maximum likelihood estimation and is scalable to spatial transcriptomics with tens of thousands of spatial locations and tens of thousands of genes.

Author: Ying Ma [aut], Jing Fu [cre]

Maintainer: Jing Fu <jing_fu at brown.edu>

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

Ying Ma. CARDspa: Spatially Informed Cell Type Deconvolution for Spatial Transcriptomics. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.CARDspa, R package version 1.4.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/CARDspa.

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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("CARDspa")

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("CARDspa")
Example_Analysis HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics, Visualization
Version1.4.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.21 (R-4.5) (1.5 years)
License GPL-3 + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports Rcpp (>= 1.0.7), RcppArmadillo, SummarizedExperiment, methods, MCMCpack, fields, wrMisc, concaveman, sp, dplyr, sf, Matrix, RANN, ggplot2, reshape2, RColorBrewer, S4Vectors, scatterpie, grDevices, ggcorrplot, stats, nnls, BiocParallel, NMF, spatstat.random, gtools, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/YMa-lab/CARDspa
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/YMa-lab/CARDspa/issues
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Source Package CARDspa_1.4.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) CARDspa_1.4.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) CARDspa_1.4.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) CARDspa_1.4.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/CARDspa
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/CARDspa
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/CARDspa/
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