SpatialQC: automated quality control for spatial transcriptome data
Guangyao Mao, Yi Yang, Zhuojuan Luo, Chengqi Lin, Peng Xie
Abstract
SUMMARY: The advent of spatial transcriptomics has revolutionized our understanding of the spatial heterogeneity in tissues, providing unprecedented insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying biological processes. Although quality control (QC) critical for downstream data analyses, there is currently a lack of specialized tools for one-stop spatial transcriptome QC. Here, we introduce SpatialQC, a one-stop QC pipeline, which generates comprehensive QC reports and produces clean data in an interactive fashion. SpatialQC is widely applicable to spatial transcriptomic techniques. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: source code and user manuals are available via https://github.com/mgy520/spatialQC, and deposited on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634669).