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SpotSweeper

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

Spatially-aware quality control for spatial transcriptomics


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Spatially-aware quality control (QC) software for both spot-level and artifact-level QC in spot-based spatial transcripomics, such as 10x Visium. These methods calculate local (nearest-neighbors) mean and variance of standard QC metrics (library size, unique genes, and mitochondrial percentage) to identify outliers spot and large technical artifacts.

Author: Michael Totty [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-9292-8556 , Stephanie Hicks [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-7858-0231 , Boyi Guo [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-2950-2349

Maintainer: Michael Totty <mictott at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("SpotSweeper")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


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

BiocManager::install("SpotSweeper")

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("SpotSweeper")
Getting Started with `SpotSweeper` HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews GeneExpression, QualityControl, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Version 1.8.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.4.0)
Imports SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, BiocNeighbors, SingleCellExperiment, stats, escheR, MASS, ggplot2, spatialEco, grDevices, BiocParallel
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/MicTott/SpotSweeper
Bug Reports https://support.bioconductor.org/tag/SpotSweeper
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Suggests knitr, BiocStyle, rmarkdown, scuttle, STexampleData, ggpubr, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package SpotSweeper_1.8.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SpotSweeper_1.8.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SpotSweeper_1.8.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SpotSweeper_1.8.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SpotSweeper
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SpotSweeper
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/SpotSweeper/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SpotSweeper/
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