BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed journal article
SpatialExperiment: infrastructure for spatially resolved transcriptomics data in R using Bioconductor
Dario RighelliiD, Lukas M. WeberiD, Helena Lucia CrowelliD, Brenda PardoiD, Leonardo Collado‐TorresiD, Shila GhazanfariD, Aaron T. L. LuniD, Stephanie C. HicksiD, Davide RissoiD
Abstract
SummarySpatialExperiment is a new data infrastructure for storing and accessing spatially resolved transcriptomics data, implemented within the R/Bioconductor framework, which provides advantages of modularity, interoperability, standardized operations, and comprehensive documentation. Here, we demonstrate the structure and user interface with examples from the 10x Genomics Visium and seqFISH platforms, and provide access to example datasets and visualization tools in the STexampleData, TENxVisiumData, and ggspavis packages. Availability and ImplementationThe SpatialExperiment, STexampleData, TENxVisiumData, and ggspavis packages are available from Bioconductor. The package versions described in this manuscript are available in Bioconductor version 3.15 onwards. Contactrisso.davide@gmail.com, shicks19@jhu.edu Supplementary InformationSupplementary Tables and Figures are available online.
- assay: spatial transcriptomics
- research focus: database / resource
- research focus: software / tool
- approach: statistical model
- approach: experimental assay
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