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SpatialExperimentIO

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

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

Read in Xenium, CosMx, MERSCOPE or STARmapPLUS data as SpatialExperiment object


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Read in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics technology data. Current available modules are for Xenium by 10X Genomics, CosMx by Nanostring, MERSCOPE by Vizgen, or STARmapPLUS from Broad Institute. You can choose to read the data in as a SpatialExperiment or a SingleCellExperiment object.

Author: Yixing E. Dong [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0003-5115-5686

Maintainer: Yixing E. Dong <estelladong729 at gmail.com>

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

Yixing E. Dong. SpatialExperimentIO: Read in Xenium, CosMx, MERSCOPE or STARmapPLUS data as SpatialExperiment object. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SpatialExperimentIO, R package version 1.4.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialExperimentIO.

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")

BiocManager::install("SpatialExperimentIO")

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("SpatialExperimentIO")
SpatialExperimentIO Reader Package Overview HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews DataImport, DataRepresentation, GeneExpression, Infrastructure, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version1.4.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.21 (R-4.5) (1.5 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports DropletUtils, SpatialExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, methods, data.table, arrow, purrr, S4Vectors
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/estellad/SpatialExperimentIO
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/estellad/SpatialExperimentIO/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), BiocStyle
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Depends On Me
Imports Me OSTA, SpaceTrooper
Suggests Me Battlefield, OSTA.data
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Package Archives

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

Source Package SpatialExperimentIO_1.4.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SpatialExperimentIO_1.4.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SpatialExperimentIO_1.4.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SpatialExperimentIO_1.4.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialExperimentIO
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SpatialExperimentIO
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpatialExperimentIO/
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