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scMultiSim

This is the development version of scMultiSim; for the stable release version, see scMultiSim.

Simulation of Multi-Modality Single Cell Data Guided By Gene Regulatory Networks and Cell-Cell Interactions


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

scMultiSim simulates paired single cell RNA-seq, single cell ATAC-seq and RNA velocity data, while incorporating mechanisms of gene regulatory networks, chromatin accessibility and cell-cell interactions. It allows users to tune various parameters controlling the amount of each biological factor, variation of gene-expression levels, the influence of chromatin accessibility on RNA sequence data, and so on. It can be used to benchmark various computational methods for single cell multi-omics data, and to assist in experimental design of wet-lab experiments.

Author: Hechen Li [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-4907-429X , Xiuwei Zhang [aut], Ziqi Zhang [aut], Michael Squires [aut]

Maintainer: Hechen Li <hli691 at gatech.edu>

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

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("scMultiSim")

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("scMultiSim")
1. Getting Started HTML R Script
2. Simulating Multimodal Single-cell Datasets HTML R Script
3. Simulating Spatial Cell-Cell Interactions HTML R Script
4. Parameter Guide HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews ExperimentalDesign, GeneExpression, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software, Transcriptomics
Version 1.9.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.4.0)
Imports foreach, rlang, dplyr, ggplot2, Rtsne, ape, MASS, matrixStats, phytools, KernelKnn, gplots, zeallot, crayon, assertthat, igraph, methods, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, markdown, SummarizedExperiment, BiocParallel
System Requirements
URL https://zhanglabgt.github.io/scMultiSim/
Bug Reports https://github.com/ZhangLabGT/scMultiSim/issues
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package scMultiSim_1.9.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) scMultiSim_1.9.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) scMultiSim_1.9.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) scMultiSim_1.9.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/scMultiSim
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/scMultiSim
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/scMultiSim/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/scMultiSim/
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