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  <dc:title>Embedding and Clustering with Alignment for Spatial Omics
Datasets</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package PRECAST version 1.8</dc:title>
  <dc:description>An efficient data integration method is provided for multiple spatial transcriptomics data with non-cluster-relevant effects such as the complex batch effects. It unifies spatial factor analysis simultaneously with spatial clustering and embedding alignment, requiring only partially shared cell/domain clusters across datasets. More details can be referred to Wei Liu, et al. (2023) &lt;doi:10.1038/s41467-023-35947-w&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: parallel, gtools, R (&gt;= 4.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: MASS, Matrix, mclust, methods, purrr, utils, Seurat, irlba,
cowplot, patchwork, scater, pbapply, ggthemes, dplyr, ggplot2,
stats, harmony, DR.SC, scales, ggpubr, graphics, colorspace,
Rcpp (&gt;= 1.0.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Wei Liu &lt;liuweideng@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Wei Liu [aut, cre],
  Yi Yang [aut],
  Jin Liu [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-12-15</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PRECAST</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PRECAST</dc:identifier>
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