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Voyager

From geospatial to spatial omics

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.14.0

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SpatialFeatureExperiment (SFE) is a new S4 class for working with spatial single-cell genomics data. The voyager package implements basic exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) methods for SFE. Univariate methods include univariate global spatial ESDA methods such as Moran's I, permutation testing for Moran's I, and correlograms. Bivariate methods include Lee's L and cross variogram. Multivariate methods include MULTISPATI PCA and multivariate local Geary's C recently developed by Anselin. The Voyager package also implements plotting functions to plot SFE data and ESDA results.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.Voyager

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Voyager")

Details

MaintainerLambda Moses <dl3764@columbia.edu>
AuthorLambda Moses [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7092-9427>), Alik Huseynov [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1438-4389>), Kayla Jackson [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-0108>), Laura Luebbert [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1379-2927>), Lior Pachter [aut, rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9164-6231>)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://github.com/pachterlab/voyager
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/pachterlab/voyager/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneExpression, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics, Visualization
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Voyager/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("Voyager"):

Lambda Moses, Alik Huseynov, Kayla Jackson, Laura Luebbert, Lior Pachter. Voyager: From geospatial to spatial omics. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Voyager, R package version 1.14.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Voyager.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

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Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageVoyager_1.14.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)Voyager_1.14.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)Voyager_1.14.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)Voyager_1.14.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), SpatialFeatureExperiment (>= 1.7.3)

Imports: BiocParallel, bluster, DelayedArray, ggnewscale, ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0), grDevices, grid, lifecycle, Matrix, MatrixGenerics, memuse, methods, patchwork, rlang, RSpectra, S4Vectors, scales, scico, sf, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment, spdep, stats, SummarizedExperiment, terra, utils, zeallot

Suggests: arrow, automap, BiocSingular, BiocStyle, biscale, cowplot, data.table, DelayedMatrixStats, EBImage, ExperimentHub, ggh4x, gstat, hexbin, knitr, matrixStats, pheatmap, RBioFormats, rhdf5, rmarkdown, scater, scattermore, scran, sfarrow, SFEData, testthat (>= 3.0.0), vdiffr, xml2

Reverse dependencies

Suggests Me (2): alabaster.sfe, SpatialFeatureExperiment