- First release of SMARTR
- Major change in the way area/volume of regions is calculated to account for bug in underlying atlas in wholebrain that pulls the wrong region registration outlines for certain subregions. Specifically, areas such as the DG-sg and DG-mo are represented twice in the same atlas plate when the hippocampus curves rostral-caudally. Previously only one of the two subregion outlines were used to calculate area, which should now be fixed.
- Change in the
exclude_anatomy
,get_registered_volumes
, andnormalize_cell_counts
functions to include asimplify_keywords
parameter which automatically re categorizes subregions to their major parent regions based on specific keywords. - Modified the
normalize_cell_counts
andcombine_cell_counts
function to also store counts and areas/volume by slice in the mouse and experiment objects, respectively. This allows for easy evaluation of the raw mapped dataset. - Our various analysis and visualization function are now compatible with the Kim lab's unified atlas. The unified atlas synthesizes label from two of the most highly used atlases --Franklin-Paxinos (FP) and the common coordinate framework (CCF) from the Allen Institute.Check out the various help pages for analysis and plotting functions to see which ones now include
ontology
as a relevant parameter. Simply change the value fromallen
tounified
to process datasets using this ontology. - New function
simplify_cell_count
can process external datasets and simplify regions based on keywords. Simplification is based on user indicated atlas (allen
orunified
)
- New function
export_permutation_results
reformats permutation results and saves it nicely for users. - Tables are now saved into an autocreated
tables
folder in the output directory for organization. - Added
create_joined_networks
andplot_joined_networks
as as capability to visualize the overlapping edges in two networks with outer joined nodes. The capability to export a list of overlapping edges between the joined network is included as a parameter increate_joined_networks
. See the documentation for more details. - Altered
plot_correlation_heatmaps() function to automatically plot parent regions as subfacets