Giotto Suite 3.3.0 (2023-04-18)#

Breaking Changes#

  • Set Suite as default branch

  • Removed all deprecated accessors from accessors.R

  • set_default_feat_type() error downgraded to warning when no feat_types exist for given spat_unit

  • update loadGiotto() and saveGiotto() to allow using long strings as column names in the spatVector objects

  • 'active_spat_unit' and 'active_feat_type' params that can be set through instructions() are now used instead of ‘giotto.spat_unit’ and ‘giotto.feat_type’ global options

  • removed duplicate create_dimObject() internal function. Keeping create_dim_obj()

Added#

  • New implementations of anndataToGiotto() and giottoToAnnData() for Nearest Neighbor and Spatial Networks

  • New check_py_for_scanpy() function, shifting code around in anndataToGiotto()

  • Add initialize() method for giotto

  • Add exported create constructor functions for Giotto S4 subobjects

  • Add activeSpatUnit() and activeFeatType() for getting and setting active defaults on gobject

  • New get_*_list() internal functions for retrieving list of all objects of a particular class for a spat_unit and feat_type

  • Add instructions() generic for giotto to access and edit giottoInstructions

  • Add centroids() method for giottoPolygon to get centroid info

  • Add overlaps() generic for accessing overlaps slot of giottoPolygon

  • Add [ and [<- (empty) access generics to get the data from main slots of giottoPolygon and giottoPoints

  • Add cores detection to run on package attach. (getOption('giotto.cores'))

  • Add option to return as giottoPoints from getFeatureInfo (default is still SpatVector)

  • Add spatVector_to_dt2 internal as a barebones alternative to spatVector_to_dt()

  • Add getRainbowColors() color palette

  • New assign_objnames_2_list() and assign_listnames_2_obj() internals for passing list names to object @name slots and vice versa

  • New test_that test_createObject.R script for read functions/S4 subobject creation

  • New test_that test_accessors.R script for accessor functions

  • New test_that test_gobject.R script for gobject consistency checks

Changes#

  • Update installGiottoEnvironment() and downstream internal functions to allow custom python installation with a new argument, mini_install_path.

  • Update checkGiottoEnvironment() to account for custom python installations with a new argument, mini_install_path.

  • Update removeGiottoEnvironment() to account for custom python installations with a new argument, mini_path.

  • Update createGiottoObject() with new data ingestion pipeline

  • Modify cell_ID, feat_ID, cell_metadata, feat_metadata slot initialization

  • Update read_expression_data() and evaluate_expr_matrix() to be compatible with exprObj

  • Change changeGiottoInstructions() to allow addition of new params and enforce logical class of known params

  • Update and fix bugs in createGiottoCosMxObject() associated with polygon placement and generation

  • Update plot() for giottoPoints with faster rasterized plotting option. (Now used by default)

  • Fix bug in doLouvainCluster() (sub)functions and made them compatible with new Giotto Suite framework.

  • Fix bug in gefToGiotto() bin_size arguments.

  • Update loadGiotto() and saveGiotto() with path.expand to expand provided file/directory paths

  • Organize new and refactored slot check functions in giotto.R for checking gobject consistency during initialize()

  • Organize new and refactored evaluate functions in data_evaluation.R for data wrangling of external data

  • Organize new and refactored read functions in data_input.R for ingesting data and converting to list of Giotto native S4 subobjects

  • Organize dummy documentation in dd.R for inheriting commonly used documentation

  • Moved create_featureNetwork_object(), create_giotto_points_object(), create_giotto_polygon_object() to classes.R

  • Moved depth() from giotto.R to utilities.R

Giotto Suite 3.2.0 (2023-02-02)#

Breaking Changes#

  • Removed support for deprecated nesting in @nn_network slot

  • createSpatialNetwork() will now output a spatialNetworkObj by default when return_gobject = FALSE. It is possible to change this back to the data.table output by setting output = 'data.table'

  • Set incomplete classes in classes.R as virtual to prevent their instantiation

  • Removed createGiottoCosMxObject() aggregate and all workflows until they are updated

Added#

  • New gefToGiotto() interoperability function to convert gef object from Stereo-seq to giotto

  • New giottoToAnnData() interoperability function to convert giotto object to squidpy flavor anndata .h5ad file(s)

  • New giottoToSpatialExperiment() and spatialExperimentToGiotto() to convert between Giotto and SpatialExperiment

  • New spatialAutoCorLocal() and spatialAutoCorGlobal() functions to find spatial autocorrelations from expression and cell metadata information

  • New createSpatialWeightMatrix() function to generate spatial weight matrix from spatial networks for autocorrelation

  • Add spatial_interaction_spot.R with functions adapted from master branch for working with the Giotto suite object.

  • New exported accessors for slots (experimental)

  • New multiomics slot in giotto

  • Add coord_fix_ratio param to spatFeatPlot2D() and spatFeatPlot2D_single()

  • Add order parameter to dimFeatPlot2D and spatDimFeatPlot2d to plot and order cells according to the levels of the selected feature (#477)

  • Add plot() method for spatialNetworkObj

  • New set_row_order_dt() internal for setting data.table to a specific row order by reference

  • New fread_colmatch() internal for fread loading a subset of rows based on matches in a specified column

  • Add missing create_nn_net_obj() internal constructor function for S4 nnNetObj

  • Add id_col, x_col, y_col params to polyStamp() to make stamp location input more flexible

  • Add optional and custom_msg params to package_check()

  • New wrap() and vect() generics for giotto, giottoPoints, and giottoPolygons

  • New rotate(), t(), and spatShift generics for giotto subobject spatial manipulation

  • New spatIDs() and featIDs() generics

  • New objName() and objName generics for setting the names of relevant S4 subobjects

  • New rbind() generic to append giottoPolygon objects

  • Add packages exactextractr and sf to “suggests” packages

  • Add package progressr to “imports” packages

Changes#

  • Move giotto object method-specific creation functions from giotto.R to convenience.R

  • Update addFeatMetadata() to handle replacement of existing columns

  • Update show() method for giotto

  • Update show() method for spatEnrObj

  • Deprecate older snake_case accessors

  • Deprecate polygon_feat_names param in favor of z_indices in readPolygonFilesVizgenHDF5()

  • Deprecate xy_translate_spatial_locations() in favor of shift_spatial_locations()

  • Optimize readPolygonFilesVizgen()

  • Fix bug in replaceGiottoInstructions() where instructions with more slots than previous are not allowed

  • Fix bug in loadGiotto() that prevents proper parsing of filenames when spat_unit or feat_type contains ’_’ characters

  • Fix loadGiotto() loss of over-allocation for data.tables-based objects after loading from disk

Giotto Suite 3.1.0 (2202-12-01)#

Added#

  • New initialize() generic that calls setalloccol() for data.table-based S4 subobjects to allow setting by reference

  • New spatUnit, spatUnit<-, featType, and featType<- feat type generics for S4 subobjects for setting the relevant slots

  • Add hexVertices() to polygon shape array generation functionality

Changes#

  • Update createGiottoCosMxObject() for 3.0 and modularization of functions. ‘subcellular’ workflow has been tested to work along with an updated tutorial.

  • Update grid plotting behavior to set a default number columns to use based on number of elements to plot. Can be overridden by explicitly providing input to cow_n_col param

  • Fix bug in annotateGiotto() after 3.0 update (#433)

  • Fix bug in joinGiottoObjects() metadata processing

  • Update seed setting behavior in dimension_reduction.R and clustering.R

Giotto Suite 3.0.1 (2022-11-20)#

Added#

  • New system color support detection (based on crayon package logic)

  • Add ability to turn off colored text in show functions with options("giotto.color_show" = FALSE)

Changes#

  • Fix bug in extract_polygon_list() (#433)

  • Update Unicode character printing with show functions for Latin1 systems

Giotto Suite 3.0.0 (2022-11-18)#

Breaking Changes#

  • S4 subobjects framework will require giotto objects to be remade

Added#

  • New createGiottoXeniumObject() for loading 10x Xenium data

  • New S4 subobjects. Details can be found in classes.R

  • New basic generics for S4 subobjects. Mainly the use of [] and []<- to get or set information into the main data slot

  • New @provenance slot in S4 subobjects to track provenance of aggregated information (z_layers used for example)

  • New calculateOverlapPolygonImages() for calculating overlapped intensities from image-based information (e.g. IMC, IF, MIBI, …) and polygon data (e.g. cell)

  • New overlapImagesToMatrix() converts intensity-polygon overlap info into an expression matrix (e.g. cell by protein)

  • New aggregateStacks() set of functions work with multiple subcellular layers when generating aggregated expression matrices

Changes#

  • Update setter functions to read the @spat_unit and @feat_type slots of subobjects to determine nesting

  • Update of show functions to display color coded nesting names and tree structure

Giotto Suite 2.1.0 (2202-11-09)#

Breaking Changes#

  • Update of python version to 3.10.2 details

Added#

  • New anndataToGiotto() to convert scanpy anndata to Giotto

Giotto Suite 2.0.0.998#

Added#

  • New GiottoData package to work with spatial datasets associated with Giotto

    • Stores the minidatasets: preprocessed giotto objects that are ready to be used in any function

    • Moved: getSpatialDataset() and loadGiottoMini() functions to this package

  • New saveGiotto() and loadGiotto() for preserving memory-pointer based objects. In general_help.R

    • It saves a Giotto object into a folder using a specific structure. Essentially a wrapper around saveRDS() that also works with spatVector and spatRaster pointers.

  • New plotInteractivePolygon() for plot-interactive polygonal selection of points.

  • New polygon shape array creation through polyStamp(), circleVertices, rectVertices. In giotto_structures.R

  • Add accessor functions get_CellMetadata (alias of pDataDT()), set_CellMetadata, get_FeatMetadata (alias of fDataDT()), set_FeatMetadata. See accessors.R

  • New filterDistributions() to generate histogram plots from expression statistics

Changes#

  • Deprecate plotInteractionChangedGenes() ,plotICG(), plotCPG() in favor of plotInteractionChangedFeatures() and plotICF() and plotCPF()

  • Deprecate plotCellProximityGenes(), in favor of plotCellProximityFeatures()

  • Deprecate plotCombineInteractionChangedGenes(), plotCombineICG(), plotCombineCPG() in favor of plotCombineInteractionChangedFeatures() and plotCombineICF()

  • Deprecate findInteractionChangedGenes(), findICG(), findCPG() in favor of findInteractionChangedFeats() and findICF

  • Deprecate filterInteractionChangedGenes(), filterICG(), filterCPG() in favor of filterInteractionChangedFeats() and filterICF()

  • Deprecate combineInteractionChangedGenes(), combineICG(), combineCPG() in favor of combineInteractionChangedFeats() and combineICF()

  • Deprecate combineCellProximityGenes_per_interaction() in favor of combineCellProximityFeatures_per_interaction()

Breaking Changes#

  • ICF output internal object structure names have changed to use feats instead of genes