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stPipe

Upstream pre-processing for Sequencing-Based Spatial Transcriptomics

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.2.0

This package serves as an upstream pipeline for pre-processing sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics data. Functions includes FASTQ trimming, BAM file reformatting, index building, spatial barcode detection, demultiplexing, gene count matrix generation with UMI deduplication, QC, and revelant visualization. Config is an essential input for most of the functions which aims to improve reproducibility.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("stPipe")

Details

MaintainerYang Xu <xu.ya@wehi.edu.au>
AuthorYang Xu [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3274-6516>), Callum Sargeant [aut], Shian Su [aut], Luyi Tian [aut], Yunshun Chen [ctb], Matthew Ritchie [ctb, fnd]
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://github.com/mritchielab/stPipe
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/mritchielab/stPipe/issues/new
System RequirementsGNU make
Downloads rank140
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsClustering, DataImport, GeneExpression, GenomeAnnotation, ImmunoOncology, Preprocessing, QualityControl, RNASeq, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Spatial, Transcriptomics, Visualization

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5.0)

Imports: basilisk, data.table, DropletUtils, dplyr, ggplot2, methods, pbmcapply, reticulate, rmarkdown, Rcpp, Rhtslib, Rsubread, Rtsne, Seurat, SeuratObject, scPipe, shiny, SummarizedExperiment, SingleCellExperiment, SpatialExperiment, stats, umap, yaml

LinkingTo: Rcpp, Rhdf5lib, testthat, Rhtslib

Suggests: knitr, plotly, BiocStyle, testthat (>= 3.0.0)