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tspex

Overview

tspex is a tissue-specificity calculator tool. It provides both an easy-to-use object-oriented Python API and a command-line interface (CLI) for calculating a variety of tissue-specificity metrics from gene expression data.

tspex features include:

• Twelve different tissue-specificity metrics.
• Integration with popular data analysis libraries, such as NumPy, SciPy, and pandas.
• Visualization functions.
• Support for Jupyter notebooks.

Web version

tspex can be used through a web interface that is freely available online.

Source code

tspex is an open source package distributed under the GPL-3.0 license. Its source code can be found in the GitHub repository. The source code of the web version is also available in GitHub.

Installation

There are two ways to install tspex:

• Using pip:

pip install tspex

• Using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge -c bioconda tspex