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DESpace

This is the development version of DESpace; for the stable release version, see DESpace.

DESpace: a framework to discover spatially variable genes

Bioconductor version: Development (3.18)

Intuitive framework for identifying spatially variable genes (SVGs) via edgeR, a popular method for performing differential expression analyses. Based on pre-annotated spatial clusters as summarized spatial information, DESpace models gene expression using a negative binomial (NB), via edgeR, with spatial clusters as covariates. SVGs are then identified by testing the significance of spatial clusters. The method is flexible and robust, and is faster than the most SV methods. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, it is the only SV approach that allows: - performing a SV test on each individual spatial cluster, hence identifying the key regions of the tissue affected by spatial variability; - jointly fitting multiple samples, targeting genes with consistent spatial patterns across replicates.

Author: Peiying Cai [aut, cre] , Simone Tiberi [aut, cte]

Maintainer: Peiying Cai <peiying.cai at uzh.ch>

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

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.3") and enter: 

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

# The following initializes usage of Bioc devel
BiocManager::install(version='devel')

BiocManager::install("DESpace")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

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browseVignettes("DESpace")
A framework to discover spatially variable genes HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
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biocViews DifferentialExpression, GeneExpression, RNASeq, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, StatisticalMethod, Transcriptomics, Visualization
Version 1.1.1
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.17 (R-4.3) (< 6 months)
License GPL-3
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports edgeR, limma, dplyr, stats, Matrix, SpatialExperiment, ggplot2, ggpubr, scales, SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, BiocGenerics, data.table, assertthat, cowplot, ggforce, ggnewscale, patchwork, BiocParallel, methods
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, BiocStyle, ExperimentHub, concaveman, spatialLIBD, purrr, scuttle, utils
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URL https://github.com/peicai/DESpace
Bug Reports https://github.com/peicai/DESpace/issues
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