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miQC

Flexible, probabilistic metrics for quality control of scRNA-seq data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.20.0

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Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has made it possible to profile gene expression in tissues at high resolution. An important preprocessing step prior to performing downstream analyses is to identify and remove cells with poor or degraded sample quality using quality control (QC) metrics. Two widely used QC metrics to identify a ‘low-quality’ cell are (i) if the cell includes a high proportion of reads that map to mitochondrial DNA encoded genes (mtDNA) and (ii) if a small number of genes are detected. miQC is data-driven QC metric that jointly models both the proportion of reads mapping to mtDNA and the number of detected genes with mixture models in a probabilistic framework to predict the low-quality cells in a given dataset.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.miQC

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("miQC")

Details

MaintainerAriel Hippen <ariel.hippen@gmail.com>
AuthorAriel Hippen [aut, cre], Stephanie Hicks [aut]
LicenseBSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/greenelab/miQC
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/greenelab/miQC/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneExpression, Preprocessing, QualityControl, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/miQC/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("miQC"):

Ariel Hippen, Stephanie Hicks. miQC: Flexible, probabilistic metrics for quality control of scRNA-seq data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.miQC, R package version 1.20.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/miQC.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagemiQC_1.20.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)miQC_1.20.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)miQC_1.20.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)miQC_1.20.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)

Imports: SingleCellExperiment, flexmix, ggplot2, splines

Suggests: scRNAseq, scater, BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown