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In Nanostring-Biostats/SpatialDecon: Deconvolution of mixed cells from spatial and/or bulk gene expression data

# SpatialDecon: mixed cell deconvolution for spatial and/or bulk gene expression
# data
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#' SpatialDecon: A package for estimating mixed cell type abundance in the regions of 
#' spatially-resolved gene expression studies
#'
#' The SpatialDecon package estimates mixed cell type abundance in the regions
#' of spatially-resolved gene
#' expression studies, using the method of Danaher & Kim (2020), "Advances in
#'  mixed cell deconvolution enable
#' quantification of cell types in spatially-resolved gene expression data."
#' It is also appropriate to apply to bulk gene expression data.
#'
#' @section functions:
#' Functions to help set up deconvolution:
#' \itemize{
#'  \item derive_GeoMx_background Estimates the background levels from GeoMx
#'  experiments
#'  \item collapseCellTypes reformats deconvolution results to merge
#'  closely-related cell types
#'  \item download_profile_matrix Downloads a cell profile matrix.
#'  \item safeTME: a data object, a matrix of immune cell profiles for use in
#'   tumor-immune deconvolution.
#' }
#' Deconvolution functions:
#' \itemize{
#'  \item spatialdecon runs the core deconvolution function
#'  \item reverseDecon runs a transposed/reverse deconvolution problem, fitting
#'  the data as a function of cell abundance estimates.
#'   Used to measure genes' dependency on cell mixing and to calculate gene
#'    residuals from cell mixing.
#' }
#' Plotting functions:
#' \itemize{
#'  \item florets Plot cell abundance on a specified x-y space, with each point
#'   a cockscomb plot showing the cell abundances of that region/sample.
#'  \item TIL_barplot Plot abundances of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)
#'   estimated from the safeTME cell profile matrix
#' }
#' @examples
#' data(mini_geomx_dataset)
#' data(safeTME)
#' data(safeTME.matches)
#' # estimate background:
#' mini_geomx_dataset$bg <- derive_GeoMx_background(
#'   norm = mini_geomx_dataset$normalized,
#'   probepool = rep(1, nrow(mini_geomx_dataset$normalized)),
#'   negnames = "NegProbe"
#' )
#' # run basic decon:
#' res0 <- spatialdecon(
#'   norm = mini_geomx_dataset$normalized,
#'   bg = mini_geomx_dataset$bg,
#'   X = safeTME
#' )
#' # run decon with bells and whistles:
#' res <- spatialdecon(
#'   norm = mini_geomx_dataset$normalized,
#'   bg = mini_geomx_dataset$bg,
#'   X = safeTME,
#'   cellmerges = safeTME.matches,
#'   cell_counts = mini_geomx_dataset$annot$nuclei,
#'   is_pure_tumor = mini_geomx_dataset$annot$AOI.name == "Tumor"
#' )
#' @docType package
#' @name SpatialDecon-package
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