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scStability

Measuring the Stability of Dimension Reduction and Cluster Assignment in scRNA-Seq Experiments

v1.0.3 · Jun 23, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Provides functions for evaluating the stability of low-dimensional embeddings and cluster assignments in single‑cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‑seq) datasets. Starting from a principal component analysis (PCA) object, users can generate multiple replicates of t‑Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t‑SNE) or Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) embeddings. Embedding stability is quantified by computing pairwise Kendall’s Tau correlations across replicates and summarizing the distribution of correlation coefficients. In addition to dimensionality reduction, 'scStability' assesses clustering consistency using either Louvain or Leiden algorithms and calculating the Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) between all pairs of cluster assignments. For background on UMAP and t-SNE algorithms, see McInnes et al. (2020, <doi:10.21105/joss.00861>) and van der Maaten & Hinton (2008, <https://github.com/lvdmaaten/bhtsne>), respectively.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies aricode future future.apply ggplot2 magrittr pcaPP rlang Rtsne Seurat uwot vegan scStability

Version History

new 1.0.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Jun 22, 2025
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Jun 19, 2025
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Jun 17, 2025
new 1.0.0 Jun 16, 2025