# MCPcounter

**Repository Path**: joyeric_admin_admin/MCPcounter

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: MCPcounter
- **Description**: https://github.com/ebecht/MCPcounter
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MulanPSL-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-12-12
- **Last Updated**: 2022-12-12

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# MCPcounter
This repository hosts the source code corresponding to the method described in our 2016 paper published in Genome Biology, [Estimating the population abundance of tissue-infiltrating immune and stromal cell populations using gene expression](https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1070-5)

To install it, the easiest is to use the `R` package `devtools` and its function `install_github`. To do so, open an `R` session and enter

    install.packages(c("devtools","curl")) ##Installs devtools and the MCPcounter dependancy 'curl'
    library(devtools)
    install_github("ebecht/MCPcounter",ref="master", subdir="Source")
    
Examples on how to run the algorithm on your data are shown in the documentation `?MCPcounter.estimate`