Pixelator

Documentation | Installation | Contributing | Contact | License | Credits

Pixelator is a software package to process sequencing FASTQ from Molecular Pixelation (MPX) assays and analyze PXL data.

It provides the pixelator commandline tool to process FASTQ files and generate PXL files and reports and can be used as a python library for further downstream processing.

Documentation

More information about pixelator is available on the Pixelgen Technologies Software documentation site.

Installation

Installation with pip

Our software pixelator is available on pypi as pixelgen-pixelator and can be installed with pip. It is recommended to install pixelator in a separate virtual environment.

pip install pixelgen-pixelator

Installation with conda / mamba

A conda package is available on the bioconda channel and can be installed with conda or mamba.

conda install -c bioconda pixelator

or

mamba install -c bioconda pixelator

Installation from source

You can also install pixelator from source by cloning the repository.

git clone https://github.com/pixelgentechnologies/pixelator.git
cd pixelator
pip install .

Using docker

The pixelator command-line tool can be run with docker images available on the GitHub container registry.

docker pull ghcr.io/pixelgentechnologies/pixelator:latest
docker run ghcr.io/pixelgentechnologies/pixelator:latest pixelator --help

You can also use the containers provided by the biocontainers project on quay.io.

Contributing

Contribution are welcome! Please check out the contributing guidelines for more information.

Contact

For feature requests or bug reports, please use the GitHub issues. For questions, comments, or suggestions you can use the GitHub discussions.

You can also email the development team at developers@pixelgen.com.

License

Pixelator is licensed under the GPL-2.0 license.

Credits

Pixelator is developed and maintained by the developers at Pixelgen Technologies.

When using pixelator in your research, please cite the following publication:

Karlsson, Filip, Tomasz Kallas, Divya Thiagarajan, Max Karlsson, Maud Schweitzer, Jose Fernandez Navarro, Louise Leijonancker, et al. “Molecular Pixelation: Single Cell Spatial Proteomics by Sequencing.” bioRxiv, June 8, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.05.543770.

Main development happened thanks to:

• Jose Fernandez Navarro (@jfnavarro)
• Alvaro Martinez Barrio (@ambarrio)
• Johan Dahlberg (@johandahlberg)
• Florian De Temmerman (@fbdtemme)

A huge thank you to all code contributors!

A non-exhaustive list of contributors follows:

• Filip Karlsson (@fika-pixelgen)
• Max Karlsson (@maxkarlsson)