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BulkSignalR

Infer Ligand-Receptor Interactions from bulk expression (transcriptomics/proteomics) data, or spatial transcriptomics

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.4.0

Inference of ligand-receptor (LR) interactions from bulk expression (transcriptomics/proteomics) data, or spatial transcriptomics. BulkSignalR bases its inferences on the LRdb database included in our other package, SingleCellSignalR available from Bioconductor. It relies on a statistical model that is specific to bulk data sets. Different visualization and data summary functions are proposed to help navigating prediction results.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("BulkSignalR")

Details

MaintainerJean-Philippe Villemin <jpvillemin@gmail.com>
AuthorJacques Colinge [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2466-4824>), Jean-Philippe Villemin [cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-5880>)
LicenseCeCILL | file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/jcolinge/BulkSignalR
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/jcolinge/BulkSignalR/issues
Downloads rank281
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsNetwork, NetworkInference, Proteomics, RNASeq, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5)

Imports: BiocFileCache, httr2, RCurl, cli, curl, rlang, jsonlite, matrixStats, methods, doParallel, glmnet, ggalluvial, ggplot2, gridExtra, grid, Rtsne, ggrepel, foreach, multtest, igraph, orthogene, stabledist, circlize (>= 0.4.14), ComplexHeatmap (>= 2.0.0), stats, scales, RANN, SpatialExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, tools

Suggests: knitr, markdown, rmarkdown, STexampleData, testthat (>= 3.0.0), codetools, Matrix, lattice, cluster, survival, MASS, nlme

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): SingleCellSignalR