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SingleR

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

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

Reference-Based Single-Cell RNA-Seq Annotation


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Performs unbiased cell type recognition from single-cell RNA sequencing data, by leveraging reference transcriptomic datasets of pure cell types to infer the cell of origin of each single cell independently.

Author: Dvir Aran [aut, cph], Aaron Lun [ctb, cre], Daniel Bunis [ctb], Jared Andrews [ctb], Friederike Dündar [ctb]

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

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

Dvir Aran. SingleR: Reference-Based Single-Cell RNA-Seq Annotation. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SingleR, R package version 2.15.4, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SingleR.

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")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("SingleR")

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("SingleR")
Link to book HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Annotation, Classification, Clustering, GeneExpression, SingleCell, Software, Transcriptomics
Version2.15.4
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.10 (R-3.6) (7 years)
License GPL-3
Depends SummarizedExperiment
Imports methods, Matrix, BiocGenerics, S4Vectors, DelayedArray, stats, utils, Rcpp, beachmat (>= 2.27.3)
System RequirementsC++17
URLhttps://github.com/SingleR-inc/SingleR
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/SingleR-inc/SingleR/issues
See More
Suggests testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, BiocParallel, SingleCellExperiment, scrapper (>= 1.5.16), scRNAseq, ggplot2, pheatmap, grDevices, gridExtra, viridis, celldex
Linking To Rcpp, beachmat, assorthead (>= 1.3.5)
Enhances
Depends On Me OSCA.advanced, OSCA.workflows, SingleRBook
Imports Me CellMentor, OSTA, scTypeEval, singleCellTK
Suggests Me augere.solo, Coralysis, scCertify, scDiagnostics, scGraphVerse, sketchR, tidySingleCellExperiment
Links To Me
Build Report Build Report, r-universe

Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package SingleR_2.15.4.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SingleR_2.15.4.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SingleR_2.15.4.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SingleR_2.15.4.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SingleR
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SingleR
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SingleR/
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