NEW FEATURES

  • Initial version of DeconvoBuddies that introduces the Mean Ratio method for identifying cluster marker genes as implemented in get_mean_ratio(). This method is described in more detail at https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.09.579665. This package also provides a wrapper to scran::findMarkers() for identifying marker genes expressed in one cluster compared to all remaining ones. See findMarkeres_1vAll() for more details. Additionally, DeconvoBuddies provides plotting functions for visualizing gene expression as violin plots across different clusters. These plots are much smaller in size compared to other ones you can make with scater::plotExpression(). See plot_gene_express(), plot_marker_express(), and related functions.