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scCompoundDE

Compositional and Transcriptional Decomposition of Pseudo-Bulk Differential Expression

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 0.99.1

scCompoundDE decomposes pseudo-bulk differential expression (DE) signals into two orthogonal components: transcriptional changes (cell-intrinsic expression shifts) and compositional changes (shifts in the relative abundance of cell subtypes). Standard pseudo-bulk DE tools confound these two sources of signal, producing spurious DE calls when subtype proportions differ between conditions. scCompoundDE fits per-subtype limma-voom models, estimates subtype proportion shifts, and uses a z-score-normalized decomposition to assign each gene a TC_ratio score — the fraction of its DE signal attributable to transcription versus composition. Genes are then classified as transcriptional (real biology), compositional (artifact), or mixed (requires caution). All functions operate natively on SingleCellExperiment objects and return a CDEResult S4 object that extends the standard DE output with full decomposition statistics.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.scCompoundDE

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("scCompoundDE")

Details

MaintainerSubhadip Jana <subhadipjana1409@gmail.com>
AuthorSubhadip Jana [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7860-2853>)
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/SubhadipJana1409/scCompoundDE
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/SubhadipJana1409/scCompoundDE/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsCellBasedAssays, DifferentialExpression, GeneExpression, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, StatisticalMethod, Transcription, Transcriptomics, WorkflowStep
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/scCompoundDE/

Citation

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

Subhadip Jana. scCompoundDE: Compositional and Transcriptional Decomposition of Pseudo-Bulk Differential Expression. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.scCompoundDE, R package version 0.99.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/scCompoundDE.

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

Documentation

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Source packagescCompoundDE_0.99.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)scCompoundDE_0.99.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)scCompoundDE_0.99.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)scCompoundDE_0.99.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5.0)

Imports: SingleCellExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors, BiocParallel, Matrix, limma, methods, stats, ggplot2, rlang, utils

Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), scuttle, withr