LIANA (LIgand-receptor ANAlysis) — unified Python framework for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell transcriptomics. Wraps multiple methods (CellPhoneDB, NATMI, Connectome, SingleCellSi
Use with AI
Install the MCP server or CLI to instantly fetch LIANA documentation:
Install command
claude mcp add biocontext7 -- npx @biocontext7/mcpOr share this page: biocontext7.com/tools/liana
Use when working with Conos (Clustering On Network Of Samples), the R package for joint analysis of multiple single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics datasets. Covers building joint k-nearest-n
2 shared topics • 2 shared operations
NicheNet — R-based computational framework for studying intercellular communication from single-cell transcriptomics. Predicts which ligands expressed by sender cell types regulate target gene express
2 shared topics • 2 shared operations
STdeconvolve — reference-free cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Decomposes multi-cellular spatial pixels into cell-type proportions and trans
2 shared topics • 2 shared operations
Seurat — comprehensive R toolkit for single-cell genomics enabling QC, normalization (LogNormalize, SCTransform), feature selection, dimensionality reduction (PCA, UMAP, t-SNE), graph-based clustering
2 shared topics • 1 shared operation
STARmap (Spatially-resolved Transcript Amplicon Readout mapping) — in situ spatial transcriptomics method that combines hydrogel-tissue chemistry with sequencing-by-hybridization (SEDAL) for multiplex
2 shared topics • 1 shared operation