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nnSVG

Scalable identification of spatially variable genes in spatially-resolved transcriptomics data

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.17.1

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Method for scalable identification of spatially variable genes (SVGs) in spatially-resolved transcriptomics data. The method is based on nearest-neighbor Gaussian processes and uses the BRISC algorithm for model fitting and parameter estimation. Allows identification and ranking of SVGs with flexible length scales across a tissue slide or within spatial domains defined by covariates. Scales linearly with the number of spatial locations and can be applied to datasets containing thousands or more spatial locations.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.nnSVG

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("nnSVG")

Details

MaintainerLukas M. Weber <weberlm3@gmail.com>
AuthorLukas M. Weber [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3282-1730>), Stephanie C. Hicks [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7858-0231>)
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/lmweber/nnSVG
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/lmweber/nnSVG/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneExpression, Preprocessing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/nnSVG/

Citation

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

Lukas M. Weber, Stephanie C. Hicks. nnSVG: Scalable identification of spatially variable genes in spatially-resolved transcriptomics data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.nnSVG, R package version 1.17.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/nnSVG.

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 packagennSVG_1.17.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)nnSVG_1.17.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)nnSVG_1.17.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)nnSVG_1.17.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2)

Imports: SpatialExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, BRISC, BiocParallel, Matrix, matrixStats, stats, methods

Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, STexampleData, WeberDivechaLCdata, scran, ggplot2, testthat

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): spoon

Suggests Me (2): SEraster, tpSVG