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scran

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

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3

Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Implements miscellaneous functions for interpretation of single-cell RNA-seq data. Methods are provided for assignment of cell cycle phase, detection of highly variable and significantly correlated genes, identification of marker genes, and other common tasks in routine single-cell analysis workflows.

Author: Aaron Lun [aut, cre], Karsten Bach [aut], Jong Kyoung Kim [ctb], Antonio Scialdone [ctb]

Maintainer: Aaron Lun <infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards at gmail.com>

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

Aaron Lun, Karsten Bach. scran: Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.scran, R package version 1.40.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/scran.

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("scran")

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("scran")
Using scran to analyze scRNA-seq data HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Clustering, GeneExpression, ImmunoOncology, Normalization, RNASeq, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Transcriptomics
Version1.40.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.3 (R-3.3) (10.5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends SingleCellExperiment, scuttle
Imports SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, BiocGenerics, BiocParallel, Rcpp, stats, methods, utils, Matrix, edgeR, limma, igraph, statmod, MatrixGenerics, S4Arrays, DelayedArray, BiocSingular, bluster, metapod, dqrng, beachmat
System RequirementsC++11
URLhttps://github.com/MarioniLab/scran/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/MarioniLab/scran/issues
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Suggests testthat, BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, DelayedMatrixStats, HDF5Array, scRNAseq, dynamicTreeCut, ResidualMatrix, ScaledMatrix, DESeq2, pheatmap, scater, scrapper
Linking To Rcpp, beachmat, BH, dqrng, scuttle
Enhances
Depends On Me OSCA.advanced, OSCA.basic, OSCA.intro, OSCA.multisample, OSCA.workflows, SingleRBook
Imports Me BASiCS, BASiCStan, BatchQC, BayesSpace, BioTIP, celda, chevreulPlot, chevreulProcess, ChromSCape, CiteFuse, Coralysis, DeconvoBuddies, Dino, epiregulon, epiregulon.extra, FLAMES, mixhvg, MOSim, MPAC, msImpute, mumosa, OSTA, pipeComp, scDblFinder, scDD, scMerge, scTreeViz, scTypeEval, singIST, singleCellTK, Spaniel, SpaNorm
Suggests Me anglemania, APL, Banksy, batchelor, blase, bluster, Canek, CellTrails, clusterExperiment, decontX, destiny, dittoSeq, DOtools, escape, escheR, ExperimentSubset, ggsc, ggspavis, Glimma, glmGamPoi, HCAData, immLynx, iSEEu, jazzPanda, miloR, Nebulosa, nnSVG, PCAtools, raer, ReactomeGSA, scConform, scDiagnostics, scDotPlot, schex, scLANE, scone, scuttle, simPIC, simpleSingleCell, SingleCellAlleleExperiment, SingleCellMultiModal, sketchR, smoothclust, splatter, SPOTlight, StabMap, SuperCellCyto, SVP, TabulaMurisData, tidySingleCellExperiment, tpSVG, transformGamPoi, TSCAN, velociraptor, Voyager
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Source Package scran_1.40.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) scran_1.40.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) scran_1.40.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) scran_1.40.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/scran
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/scran
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/scran/
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