blase
Bioc currentBulk Linking Analysis for Single-cell Experiments
Release Lineage
Entered 3.22 · Oct 30, 2025
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
BLASE is a method for finding where bulk RNA-seq data lies on a single-cell pseudotime trajectory. It uses a fast and understandable approach based on Spearman correlation, with bootstrapping to provide confidence. BLASE can be used to "date" bulk RNA-seq data, annotate cell types in scRNA-seq, and help correct for developmental phenotype differences in bulk RNA-seq experiments.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
49 15 exported
Complexity
2.7 avg / 10 max
Call network
49 nodes / 43 edges
Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.
Call graph
Open call graph →Lowest coverage
Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.
Code
Structure
Lines of code
7,995
Files
85
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
31
Internal functions
31
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.41
testthat edition
3
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
–
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
5.9%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.5.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL (>= 3)
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
2
First release
2025-10-29
Latest release
2026-08-11
Avg cadence
286 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
1
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 46 (8 internal)
- Examples that run
- 100%36 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 99%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/andrewmccluskey-uog/blase on 2026-10-18.
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-26
pkgdown site last built 2026-05-26
Datasets
| Name | Class | Size | Also in |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCA_PF_SCE | – | – | – |
| painter_microarray | data.frame | 1,731 × 48 | No other package |
| tradeSeq_BLASE_example_sce | – | – | – |
| zhang_2021_heat_shock_bulk | data.frame | 990 × 12 | No other package |
Topics
People
- Andrew McCluskey author maintainer
- David A. Gunn author
- Toby Kettlewell author
- Rhiannon Kundu author
- Thomas D. Otto author thesis advisor
- Adrian M. Smith author
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("blase")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.1186/s44330-026-00082-7.
Cite the R Observatory
For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.