netAnalysis_computeCentrality
, netVisual_embeddingPairwise
, netAnalysis_signalingChanges_scatter
NB: The method for computing the 'influencer' metric in the function netAnalysis_computeCentrality
has been changed due to the issue that "lower" mode gives different results when re-ordering the matrix. The results changed, but it looks like the dominant patterns do not change, i.e., the top cell groups ranked based on this metrix retain the same.
- Add
netAnalysis_diff_signalingRole_scatter
for 2D visualization of differential signaling roles of each cell group when comparing mutiple datasets.
netVisual
, netVisual_aggregate
, netVisual_individual
, netVisual_hierarchy1
, netVisual_hierarchy2
,netVisual_circle
,createCellChat
,netAnalysis_computeCentrality
,netAnalysis_signalingRole_scatter
, netAnalysis_signalingChanges_scatter
-
Add
thresh = 0.05
innetAnalysis_computeCentrality
to only consider the significant interactions. This will slightly change (very likely quantitative instead of qualitative change) the results computed by previous version of CellChat. -
In the updated
netAnalysis_computeCentrality
, we now also compute unweighted outdegree (i.e., the total number of outgoing links) and indegree (i.e., the total number of incoming links). -
netAnalysis_signalingRole_scatter
andnetAnalysis_signalingChanges_scatter
now support the comparison of the total number of outgoing and incoming links. -
Change the default setting for visualizing cell-cell communication network: 1) using
circle
plot instead ofhierarchy
; 2) using the same node size instead of different size (settingvertex.weight = NULL
will give different size as in previous version of CellChat).
- Add
updateClusterLabels
to update cell cluster labels without re-running the time-consuming functioncomputeCommunProb
.
netAnalysis_signalingRole_scatter
, setIdent
, netVisual_diffInteraction
, sketchData
, identifyOverExpressedGenes
,netEmbedding
,runUMAP
- Add
subsetCellChat
to create a object using a portion of cells - Add
computeAveExpr
to compute the average expression per cell group - Add
sketchData
to downsample the single cell data for faster calculation - Add
netAnalysis_signalingChanges_scatter
to identify the signaling changes associated with one cell group
computeCommunProb
now supports a faster calculation and displays a ProgressBarcomputeCommunProbPathway
now returns the significant pathways that are ordered based on the total communication probabilities
- The first release was published as version 1.0.0 before updating to version 1.1.0
- CellChat paper is now officially published (Jin et al., Nature Communications, 2021). Compared to the preprint, we have now experimentally validated CellChat's predictions on embryonic skin using RNAscope technique, applied CellChat to a human diseased skin dataset and updated many others.
- We have now developed a standalone CellChat Shiny App for interactive exploration of the cell-cell communication analyzed by CellChat. Want to share your results with your collaborators like biologists for further exploration? Try it out!
- Slight changes of CellChat object (Please update your previously calculated CellChat object via
updateCellChat()
) - Enhanced documentation of functions and tutorials (use
help()
to check the documentation, e.g.,help(CellChat)
) - New features for comparison analysis of multiple datasets
- Support for creating a new CellChat object from Seurat V3 or SingleCellExperiment object