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SPOTlight

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

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`SPOTlight`: Spatial Transcriptomics Deconvolution


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

`SPOTlight` provides a method to deconvolute spatial transcriptomics spots using a seeded NMF approach along with visualization tools to assess the results. Spatially resolved gene expression profiles are key to understand tissue organization and function. However, novel spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiling techniques lack single-cell resolution and require a combination with single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) information to deconvolute the spatially indexed datasets. Leveraging the strengths of both data types, we developed SPOTlight, a computational tool that enables the integration of ST with scRNA-seq data to infer the location of cell types and states within a complex tissue. SPOTlight is centered around a seeded non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) regression, initialized using cell-type marker genes and non-negative least squares (NNLS) to subsequently deconvolute ST capture locations (spots).

Author: Marc Elosua-Bayes [aut, cre], Zachary DeBruine [aut], Helena L. Crowell [aut]

Maintainer: Marc Elosua-Bayes <elosua.marc at gmail.com>

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

Marc Elosua-Bayes, Zachary DeBruine, Helena L. Crowell. SPOTlight: `SPOTlight`: Spatial Transcriptomics Deconvolution. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SPOTlight, R package version 1.16.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SPOTlight.

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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("SPOTlight")

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("SPOTlight")
"SPOTlight" HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews SingleCell, Software, Spatial, StatisticalMethod
Version1.16.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.15 (R-4.2) (4.5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends R (>= 4.5.0)
Imports ggplot2, Matrix, SingleCellExperiment, sparseMatrixStats, stats
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/MarcElosua/SPOTlight
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/MarcElosua/SPOTlight/issues
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Suggests BiocStyle, colorBlindness, DelayedArray, DropletUtils, ExperimentHub, ggcorrplot, grDevices, grid, igraph, jpeg, knitr, methods, png, rmarkdown, scater, scatterpie, scran, SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, TabulaMurisSenisData, TENxVisiumData, testthat
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Source Package SPOTlight_1.16.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SPOTlight_1.16.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SPOTlight_1.16.0.tgz
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Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SPOTlight
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SPOTlight
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SPOTlight/
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