# Splatter
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Splatter is an R package for the simple simulation of single-cell RNA sequencing
data. Splatter provides a common interface to multiple simulations that have:
* Functions for estimating simulation parameters
* Objects for storing those parameters
* Functions for simulating counts using those parameters
Splatter is built on top of [`scater`][scater] and stores simulations in
[`SingleCellExperiment`][SCE] objects. Splatter also has functions for comparing
simulations and real datasets.
## Installation.
Splatter is available from [Bioconductor][bioc] for R >=3.4.
It can be installed from Bioconductor with:
```{r}
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("splatter")
```
If you wish to build a local version of the vignette use:
```{r}
BiocManager::install("splatter", build_vignettes=TRUE)
```
This will also build the vignette and install all suggested dependencies (which
aren't required for core functionality).
## Getting started
Once installed the best place to get started is the vignette. For most users
the most convenient way to access this is online [here][vignette].
Alternatively, if you chose to build the vignette, you can load Splatter, then
browse the vignettes:
```{r}
library(splatter)
browseVignettes("splatter")
```
This is a detailed document that introduces the main features of Splatter.
## Citing Splatter
If you use Splatter please cite our paper ["Zappia L, Phipson B, Oshlack A.
Splatter: Simulation Of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data. Genome Biology. 2017;
doi:10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0"][paper].
```
@Article{,
author = {Luke Zappia and Belinda Phipson and Alicia Oshlack},
title = {Splatter: simulation of single-cell RNA sequencing data},
journal = {Genome Biology},
year = {2017},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0},
doi = {10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0},
}
```
[scater]: https://github.com/davismcc/scater
[SCE]: https://github.com/drisso/SingleCellExperiment
[contrib]: https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/209
[bioc]: https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/splatter.html
[vignette]: https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/splatter/inst/doc/splatter.html
[paper]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0
