sce_to_spe: Convert a SCE object to a SPE one

In LieberInstitute/spatialLIBD: spatialLIBD: an R/Bioconductor package to visualize spatially-resolved transcriptomics data

Convert a SCE object to a SPE one

Description

This function converts a spot-level SingleCellExperiment-class (SCE) object as generated by fetch_data() to a SpatialExperiment-class (SPE) object.

Usage

sce_to_spe(sce = fetch_data("sce"), imageData = NULL)

Arguments

sce	Defaults to the output of fetch_data(type = 'sce'). This is a SingleCellExperiment object with the spot-level Visium data and information required for visualizing the histology. See fetch_data() for more details.
imageData	A DataFrame() with image data. Will be used with SpatialExperiment::imgData. If NULL, then this will be constructed for you assuming that you are working with the original data from spatialLIBD::fetch_data("sce").

Details

Note that the resulting object is a bit more complex than a regular SPE because it contains the data from the spatialLIBD project which you might otherwise have to generate for your own data.

Value

A a SpatialExperiment-class object.

Author(s)

Brenda Pardo, Leonardo Collado-Torres

Examples

if (enough_ram()) {
    ## Download the sce data
    sce <- fetch_data("sce")
    ## Transform it to a SpatialExperiment object
    spe <- sce_to_spe(sce)
}

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