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SEraster

Rasterization Preprocessing Framework for Scalable Spatial Omics Data Analysis

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.5.0

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SEraster is a rasterization preprocessing framework that aggregates cellular information into spatial pixels to reduce resource requirements for spatial omics data analysis. SEraster reduces the number of spatial points in spatial omics datasets for downstream analysis through a process of rasterization where single cells’ gene expression or cell-type labels are aggregated into equally sized pixels based on a user-defined resolution. SEraster is built on an R/Bioconductor S4 class called SpatialExperiment. SEraster can be incorporated with other packages to conduct downstream analyses for spatial omics datasets, such as detecting spatially variable genes.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.SEraster

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("SEraster")

Details

MaintainerGohta Aihara <gohta.aihara@gmail.com>
AuthorGohta Aihara [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-9610>), Mayling Chen [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0961-6665>), Lyla Atta [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6113-0082>), Jean Fan [aut, rev] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-5451>)
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://github.com/JEFworks-Lab/SEraster
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/JEFworks-Lab/SEraster/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneExpression, Preprocessing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SEraster/

Citation

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

Gohta Aihara, Mayling Chen, Lyla Atta, Jean Fan. SEraster: Rasterization Preprocessing Framework for Scalable Spatial Omics Data Analysis. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SEraster, R package version 1.5.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SEraster.

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

Documentation

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Source packageSEraster_1.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)SEraster_1.5.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)SEraster_1.5.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)SEraster_1.5.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5.0)

Imports: BiocParallel, ggplot2, Matrix, methods, rearrr, sf, SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment

Suggests: CooccurrenceAffinity, nnSVG, testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, BiocManager, remotes