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scDesign3

This is the released version of scDesign3; for the devel version, see scDesign3.

A unified framework of realistic in silico data generation and statistical model inference for single-cell and spatial omics


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

We present a statistical simulator, scDesign3, to generate realistic single-cell and spatial omics data, including various cell states, experimental designs, and feature modalities, by learning interpretable parameters from real data. Using a unified probabilistic model for single-cell and spatial omics data, scDesign3 infers biologically meaningful parameters; assesses the goodness-of-fit of inferred cell clusters, trajectories, and spatial locations; and generates in silico negative and positive controls for benchmarking computational tools.

Author: Dongyuan Song [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-1114-1215 , Qingyang Wang [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1051-609X , Chenxin Jiang [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0005-7369-4116

Maintainer: Dongyuan Song <dongyuansong at ucla.edu>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("scDesign3")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


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

BiocManager::install("scDesign3")

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("scDesign3")
scDesign3-quickstart-vignette HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews GeneExpression, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial
Version 1.10.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.18 (R-4.3) (3 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports dplyr, tibble, stats, methods, mgcv, gamlss, gamlss.dist, SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, mclust, mvtnorm, parallel, pbmcapply, umap, ggplot2, irlba, viridis, BiocParallel, matrixStats, Matrix, sparseMVN, coop
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URL https://github.com/SONGDONGYUAN1994/scDesign3
Bug Reports https://github.com/SONGDONGYUAN1994/scDesign3/issues
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Suggests mvnfast, igraph, rvinecopulib, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), RefManageR, sessioninfo, BiocStyle
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Source Package scDesign3_1.10.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) scDesign3_1.10.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) scDesign3_1.10.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) scDesign3_1.10.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/scDesign3
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/scDesign3
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/scDesign3/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/scDesign3/
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