SPACEL 1.1.3

SPACEL: characterizing spatial transcriptome architectures by deep-learning

SPACEL: characterizing spatial transcriptome architectures by deep-learning

SPACEL (SPatial Architecture Characterization by dEep Learning) is a Python package of deep-learning-based methods for ST data analysis. SPACEL consists of three modules:

• Spoint embedded a multiple-layer perceptron with a probabilistic model to deconvolute cell type composition for each spot on single ST slice.
• Splane employs a graph convolutional network approach and an adversarial learning algorithm to identify uniform spatial domains that are transcriptomically and spatially coherent across multiple ST slices.
• Scube automatically transforms the spatial coordinate systems of consecutive slices and stacks them together to construct a three-dimensional (3D) alignment of the tissue.

Getting started

• Requirements
• Installation
• Tutorials
  • Spoint tutorial: Deconvolution of cell types compostion on human brain Visium dataset
  • Splane tutorial: Identify uniform spatial domain on human breast cancer Visium dataset
  • Scube tutorial: Alignment of consecutive ST slices on human brain MERFISH dataset
  • Scube tutorial: 3D expression modeling with gaussian process regression

Read the documentation for more information.

Latest updates

Version 1.1.2 2023-07-12

Fixed Bugs

• Removed rpy2 from the pypi dependency of SPACEL. It now needs to be pre-installed when creating the environment through conda.
• Fixed a bug in Scube where the best_model_state was not referenced before being used.

Features

• Added function documentations for Scube related to the GPR model.

Version 1.1.1 2023-07-11

Features

• All code based on Tensorflow have been mirated to PyTorch, it does not have Tensorflow as dependency anymore.
• The Splane.utils.add_cell_type_composition function has been implemented to facilitate the cell type composition predicted by deconvolution methods into Splane.
• Spoint and Splane now support tqdm type output for improved progress tracking.

Requirements

To install SPACEL, you need to install PyTorch with GPU support first. If you don't need GPU acceleration, you can just skip the installation for cudnn and cudatoolkit.

• Create conda environment for SPACEL:

conda env create -f environment.yml

or

conda create -n SPACEL -c conda-forge -c default cudatoolkit=10.2 python=3.8 rpy2 r-base r-fitdistrplus

You must choose correct PyTorch, cudnn and cudatoolkit version dependent on your graphic driver version.

• Test if PyTorch for GPU available:

python
>>> import torch
>>> torch.cuda.is_available()

If these command line have not return True, please check your gpu driver version and cudatoolkit version. For more detail, look at CUDA Toolkit Major Component Versions.

Note: If you want to run 3D expression GPR model in Scube, you need to install the Open3D python library first.

Installation

• Install SPACEL:

pip install SPACEL