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AUCell

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

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

AUCell: Analysis of 'gene set' activity in single-cell RNA-seq data (e.g. identify cells with specific gene signatures)


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

AUCell allows to identify cells with active gene sets (e.g. signatures, gene modules...) in single-cell RNA-seq data. AUCell uses the "Area Under the Curve" (AUC) to calculate whether a critical subset of the input gene set is enriched within the expressed genes for each cell. The distribution of AUC scores across all the cells allows exploring the relative expression of the signature. Since the scoring method is ranking-based, AUCell is independent of the gene expression units and the normalization procedure. In addition, since the cells are evaluated individually, it can easily be applied to bigger datasets, subsetting the expression matrix if needed.

Author: Sara Aibar, Stein Aerts. Laboratory of Computational Biology. VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. Leuven, Belgium.

Maintainer: Gert Hulselmans <Gert.Hulselmans at kuleuven.be>

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

Sara Aibar, Stein Aerts. Laboratory of Computational Biology. VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. Leuven, Belgium. AUCell: AUCell: Analysis of 'gene set' activity in single-cell RNA-seq data (e.g. identify cells with specific gene signatures). doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.AUCell, R package version 1.34.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/AUCell.

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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("AUCell")

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("AUCell")
AUCell: Identifying cells with active gene sets HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews GeneExpression, GeneSetEnrichment, Normalization, SingleCell, Software, Transcription, Transcriptomics, WorkflowStep
Version1.34.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.6 (R-3.4) (9 years)
License GPL-3
Depends
Imports DelayedArray, DelayedMatrixStats, data.table, graphics, grDevices, GSEABase, Matrix, methods, mixtools, R.utils, stats, SummarizedExperiment, BiocGenerics, utils
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Imports Me OSTA, RcisTarget, scFeatures
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Source Package AUCell_1.34.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) AUCell_1.34.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) AUCell_1.34.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) AUCell_1.34.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/AUCell
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/AUCell
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/AUCell/
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