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scDesign3

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A unified framework of realistic in silico data generation and statistical model inference for single-cell and spatial omics


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We present a statistical simulator, scDesign3, to generate realistic single-cell and spatial omics data, including various cell states, experimental designs, and feature modalities, by learning interpretable parameters from real data. Using a unified probabilistic model for single-cell and spatial omics data, scDesign3 infers biologically meaningful parameters; assesses the goodness-of-fit of inferred cell clusters, trajectories, and spatial locations; and generates in silico negative and positive controls for benchmarking computational tools.

Author: Dongyuan Song [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-1114-1215 , Qingyang Wang [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1051-609X , Chenxin Jiang [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0005-7369-4116

Maintainer: Dongyuan Song <dongyuansong at ucla.edu>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("scDesign3")):

Dongyuan Song, Qingyang Wang, Chenxin Jiang. scDesign3: A unified framework of realistic in silico data generation and statistical model inference for single-cell and spatial omics. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.scDesign3, R package version 1.10.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/scDesign3.

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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("scDesign3")

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("scDesign3")
scDesign3 Quickstart HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews GeneExpression, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial
Version1.10.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.18 (R-4.3) (3 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports dplyr, tibble, stats, methods, mgcv, gamlss, gamlss.dist, SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, mclust, mvtnorm, parallel, pbmcapply, umap, ggplot2, irlba, viridis, BiocParallel, matrixStats, Matrix, sparseMVN, coop
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URLhttps://github.com/SONGDONGYUAN1994/scDesign3
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/SONGDONGYUAN1994/scDesign3/issues
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Source Package scDesign3_1.10.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) scDesign3_1.10.0.zip
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Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/scDesign3/
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