Abstract

Background

Technological developments in the emerging field of spatial transcriptomics have opened up an unexplored landscape where transcript information is put in a spatial context. Clustering commonly constitutes a central component in analyzing this type of data. However, deciding on the number of clusters to use and interpreting their relationships can be difficult.

Results

We introduce SpatialCPie, an R package designed to facilitate cluster evaluation for spatial transcriptomics data. SpatialCPie clusters the data at multiple resolutions. The results are visualized with pie charts that indicate the similarity between spatial regions and clusters and a cluster graph that shows the relationships between clusters at different resolutions. We demonstrate SpatialCPie on several publicly available datasets.

Conclusions

SpatialCPie provides intuitive visualizations of cluster relationships when dealing with Spatial Transcriptomics data.

Details

Title
SpatialCPie: an R/Bioconductor package for spatial transcriptomics cluster evaluation
Author
Bergenstråhle, Joseph; Bergenstråhle, Ludvig; Lundeberg, Joakim
Pages
1-7
Section
Software
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
14712105
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2404248550
Copyright
© 2020. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.