Signac is a comprehensive R package for the analysis of single-cell chromatin data. Signac includes functions for quality control, normalization, dimension reduction, clustering, differential activity, and more.
Documentation and tutorials can be found at https://stuartlab.org/signac/
To install the latest release of Signac from CRAN:
setRepositories(ind=1:3) # needed to automatically install Bioconductor dependencies
install.packages("Signac")To release the latest develop version from GitHub:
if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("stuart-lab/signac", ref = "develop")For a changelog please see the NEWS file, also available on the Signac website.
We welcome contributions to the Signac package. Please see the contribution guide for more information.
If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue.
If you would like to discuss questions related to single-cell analysis, you can open a discussion.
Signac runs on a quarterly release schedule. Additional releases will be scheduled in the case of urgent bug fixes. The development roadmap can be viewed on GitHub here.
If you use the Signac package in your work please cite Stuart et al. 2021
@ARTICLE{signac,
title = "Single-cell chromatin state analysis with Signac",
author = "Stuart, Tim and Srivastava, Avi and Madad, Shaista and Lareau,
Caleb A and Satija, Rahul",
journal = "Nat. Methods",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
pages = "1--9",
month = nov,
year = 2021,
url = "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01282-5",
language = "en"
}