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SimBu

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

Simulate Bulk RNA-seq Datasets from Single-Cell Datasets


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

SimBu can be used to simulate bulk RNA-seq datasets with known cell type fractions. You can either use your own single-cell study for the simulation or the sfaira database. Different pre-defined simulation scenarios exist, as are options to run custom simulations. Additionally, expression values can be adapted by adding an mRNA bias, which produces more biologically relevant simulations.

Author: Alexander Dietrich [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Alexander Dietrich <alex.dietrich at tum.de>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("SimBu")):
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("SimBu")

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("SimBu")
Getting started HTML R Script
Inputs and Outputs HTML R Script
Introducing mRNA bias into simulations with scaling factors HTML R Script
Public Data Integration using Sfaira HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews RNASeq, SingleCell, Software
Version 1.14.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.16 (R-4.2) (4 years)
License GPL-3 + file LICENSE
Depends
Imports basilisk, BiocParallel, data.table, dplyr, ggplot2, tools, Matrix (>= 1.3.3), methods, phyloseq, proxyC, RColorBrewer, RCurl, reticulate, sparseMatrixStats, SummarizedExperiment, tidyr
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/omnideconv/SimBu
Bug Reports https://github.com/omnideconv/SimBu/issues
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Suggests curl, knitr, matrixStats, rmarkdown, Seurat (>= 5.0.0), SeuratObject (>= 5.0.0), testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package SimBu_1.14.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) SimBu_1.14.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) SimBu_1.14.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) SimBu_1.14.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/SimBu
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/SimBu
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/SimBu/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/SimBu/
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