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SPICEY

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

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Calculates cell type specificity from single cell data


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

SPICEY (SPecificity Index for Coding and Epigenetic activitY) is an R package designed to quantify cell-type specificity in single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic data, particularly scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq. It introduces two complementary indices: the Gene Expression Tissue Specificity Index (GETSI) and the Regulatory Element Tissue Specificity Index (RETSI), both based on entropy to provide continuous, interpretable measures of specificity. By integrating gene expression and chromatin accessibility, SPICEY enables standardized analysis of cell-type-specific regulatory programs across diverse tissues and conditions.

Author: Georgina Fuentes-Páez [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0003-9417-7148 , Nacho Molina [aut], Mireia Ramos-Rodriguez [aut], Lorenzo Pasquali [aut], Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Spain [fnd] (program: FPI Fellowship)

Maintainer: Georgina Fuentes-Páez <georgina.fuentes at upf.edu>

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

Georgina Fuentes-Páez, Nacho Molina, Mireia Ramos-Rodriguez, Lorenzo Pasquali. SPICEY: Calculates cell type specificity from single cell data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SPICEY, R package version 1.2.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SPICEY.

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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("SPICEY")

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("SPICEY")
Measuring tissue specificity from single cell data with SPICEY HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews DifferentialExpression, DifferentialPeakCalling, Epigenetics, GeneExpression, GeneRegulation, GeneTarget, SingleCell, Software, Transcription, Transcriptomics
Version1.2.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.22 (R-4.5) (1 year)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.5.0), utils, stats, grDevices
Imports GenomicRanges, GenomicFeatures, AnnotationDbi, S4Vectors, ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, tibble, GenomeInfoDb, scales, cowplot
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URLhttps://georginafp.github.io/SPICEY
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/georginafp/SPICEY/issues
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Suggests BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene, org.Hs.eg.db, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Source Package SPICEY_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SPICEY_1.2.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SPICEY_1.2.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SPICEY_1.2.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SPICEY
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SPICEY
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SPICEY/
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