不知道大家有没有在使用Seurat的FindAllMarkers时常常觉得计算时间过长，人生苦短，等待的时间真的很煎熬。genesorteR是一个用于单细胞数据分析的R软件包。它计算一个特异性分数来对每个细胞簇中的所有基因进行排序。然后，它可以使用这个排序来找到一组标记基因，或者找到高度可变或差异表达的基因。也就是说，genesorteR可以很好的替代FindAllMarkers，并且秒出结果！genesorteR既适用于scRNA-Seq数据，也适用于scATAC-Seq等稀疏单细胞数据，我们简单演示一下。测试数据大家自己扫码获取吧：

通过百度网盘分享的文件：genesorteR链接：https://pan.baidu.com/s/1h7CZ2MqXiGWc-nIYbnCcBQ?pwd=cn1m 提取码：cn1m

### 读入测试数据 ###library(Seurat)

## The legacy packages maptools, rgdal, and rgeos, underpinning the sp package,## which was just loaded, were retired in October 2023.## Please refer to R-spatial evolution reports for details, especially## https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html.## It may be desirable to make the sf package available;## package maintainers should consider adding sf to Suggests:.

## Attaching SeuratObject

scRNA <- readRDS('pbmcrenamed.rds')DimPlot(scRNA)

这是一个已经注释过的数据，这时通常我们会利用Seurat内置的FindAllMarkers()来计算各细胞类型的marker基因，我们来看一下计算时间：

system.time({seu_marker <- FindAllMarkers(scRNA)})

## Calculating cluster VSMC

## Calculating cluster T cell

## Calculating cluster Macro

## Calculating cluster B cell

## Calculating cluster Fibro

## Calculating cluster Myeloid cells

## Calculating cluster Mono

## Calculating cluster Neut

## Calculating cluster EC

##    user  system elapsed ## 163.181   0.967 164.148

可以看出计算marker需要花费大量的时间，这里给大家介绍一个加速marker计算的新方法：

# 装包：if(!require(devtools))install.packages("devtools")

## Loading required package: devtools

## Loading required package: usethis

if(!require(genesorteR))devtools::install_github("mahmoudibrahim/genesorteR")

## Loading required package: genesorteR

## Loading required package: Matrix

system.time( { # 计算：  gs <- sortGenes(scRNA@assays$RNA@data, Idents(scRNA))   # 获取marker列表：  gs_marker <- getMarkers(gs, quant = 0.99)  })

## Warning in sortGenes(scRNA@assays$RNA@data, Idents(scRNA)): A Friendly Warning:## Some genes were removed because they were zeros in all cells after## binarization. You probably don't need to do anything but you might want to look## into this. Maybe you forgot to pre-filter the genes? You can also use a## different binarization method. Excluded genes are available in the output under## '$removed'.

## 'as(, "dgCMatrix")' is deprecated.## Use 'as(., "CsparseMatrix")' instead.## See help("Deprecated") and help("Matrix-deprecated").

##    user  system elapsed ##   1.357   0.108   1.466

可以说计算速度有质的飞跃。

我们对比一下两种方式筛选出的top5marker：

library(dplyr)

## ## Attaching package: 'dplyr'

## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':## ##     filter, lag

## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':## ##     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

# 查看Seurat筛选出的top5 marker基因seu_marker_top5 <- seu_marker %>%  group_by(cluster) %>%  slice_max(n = 5, order_by = avg_log2FC)# 将genesorteR计算的top5基因整理为数据框spec_scores <- gs$specScore# 获取基因名genes <- rownames(spec_scores)# 创建一个空的数据框来存储结果top5_genes_df <- data.frame()# 遍历每个 cluster (specScore 的列)for (cluster in colnames(spec_scores)) {  # 获取当前 cluster 的 specScore 列并绑定基因名  cluster_scores <- data.frame(    gene = genes,    specScore = spec_scores[, cluster],    cluster = cluster  )    # 按 specScore 降序排列并取前5个基因  top5_genes <- cluster_scores %>%    arrange(desc(specScore)) %>%    head(5)    # 将结果合并到总的数据框中  top5_genes_df <- rbind(top5_genes_df, top5_genes)}# 打印最终的 top 5 基因数据框top5_genes_df

##              gene specScore       cluster## Itga8       Itga8 0.6400709          VSMC## Npnt         Npnt 0.6387903          VSMC## Ppp1r14a Ppp1r14a 0.5918881          VSMC## Ccn3         Ccn3 0.5916800          VSMC## Lmod1       Lmod1 0.5912409          VSMC## Cd3g         Cd3g 0.7788462        T cell## Ms4a4b     Ms4a4b 0.7617241        T cell## Cd3d         Cd3d 0.7570093        T cell## Trbc2       Trbc2 0.7180583        T cell## Skap1       Skap1 0.6912000        T cell## Clec4a3   Clec4a3 0.5825532         Macro## Ms4a6c     Ms4a6c 0.5259740         Macro## Clec4a1   Clec4a1 0.5159770         Macro## Sirpb1c   Sirpb1c 0.4932967         Macro## Ccr2         Ccr2 0.4490722         Macro## Cd79a       Cd79a 0.8695652        B cell## Ms4a1       Ms4a1 0.8549495        B cell## Ly6d         Ly6d 0.8335849        B cell## Iglc3       Iglc3 0.8227174        B cell## Iglc2       Iglc2 0.8151579        B cell## Serpinf1 Serpinf1 0.7032967         Fibro## Lum           Lum 0.6982759         Fibro## Dpt           Dpt 0.6812162         Fibro## Dcn           Dcn 0.6097561         Fibro## Pcolce     Pcolce 0.6073494         Fibro## Alox12     Alox12 0.6377953 Myeloid cells## Itga2b     Itga2b 0.6267361 Myeloid cells## Clec1b     Clec1b 0.6203165 Myeloid cells## Treml1     Treml1 0.6150893 Myeloid cells## Gp5           Gp5 0.5632184 Myeloid cells## C1qc         C1qc 0.7455682          Mono## C1qa         C1qa 0.7342353          Mono## C3ar1       C3ar1 0.7101370          Mono## C1qb         C1qb 0.7077895          Mono## Tnf           Tnf 0.7004167          Mono## Mmp9         Mmp9 0.7680000          Neut## Retnlg     Retnlg 0.7458678          Neut## Slfn4       Slfn4 0.7348544          Neut## Ly6g         Ly6g 0.7272727          Neut## Cxcr2       Cxcr2 0.7054839          Neut## Egfl7       Egfl7 0.9209184            EC## Ptprb       Ptprb 0.8709677            EC## Cdh5         Cdh5 0.8501149            EC## Ecscr       Ecscr 0.7810714            EC## Mmrn2       Mmrn2 0.7401316            EC

library(ggplot2)library(patchwork)(VlnPlot(scRNA,features = seu_marker_top5$gene,stack = T)+   ggtitle("Seurat计算结果"))/  (VlnPlot(scRNA,features = top5_genes_df$gene,stack = T) +   ggtitle("genesorteR计算结果"))

可以看出，面对相同的数据，genesorteR不仅计算速度更快，marker的特异性也更高一些。

参考：https://doi.org/10.1101/676379

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