Projects

Research themes pursued by CTIR. Each project card brings together the relevant Software packages and the Workflows that demonstrate them in practice — the full path from method development to applied analysis on a defined research question.

Software cards live at Software. End-to-end demonstrations live at Workflows.

Single-Cell Analysis

Cellular composition and state in injured and healthy tissue. CTIR develops methods and software for end-to-end single-cell analysis — from raw counts through QC, embedding, segmentation-aware spatial context, and publication-ready cell-level reporting.

Software:
  • cellreportR — publication-ready cell-level reports
  • scimagR — single-cell imaging integration
  • segmantR — segmentation utilities
  • bambamR — bulk reference profiles for calibration
  • songR — interpretable embeddings

Hyperspectral Imaging

Label-free tissue characterization from spectral signatures. CTIR develops HSI ingest, preprocessing, library matching, and interpretable embedding methods for tissue-region classification, with reproducible reporting baked in.

Software:
  • hyperspectR — HSI cube ingest and preprocessing
  • libscanR — reference-spectrum library matching
  • songR — interpretable embeddings over spectral features
  • reflowR — CTIR-styled reproducible report themes

Cross-Modal Integration

Aligning high-dimensional modalities — imaging, single-cell, bulk omics, multiplex protein, molecular pathology — into a coherent translational view. CTIR's flagship integration theme: methods and software for harmonizing heterogeneous data into shared representations, with cohort-level inference and interactive exploration. Connects assay-level processing to translational inference end-to-end.

Software:
  • hyperspectR — modality-specific ingest and processing
  • cellreportR — cell-level reporting
  • bambamR — bulk RNA-seq processing
  • segmantR — segmentation utilities
  • scimagR — single-cell imaging integration
  • qviewparsR — multiplex protein parsing
  • pressR — cohort reporting
  • molpathR — molecular pathology cohort assembly and interactive exploration
  • songR — joint interpretable embeddings across modalities
  • dynasimR — synthetic ground truth for integration benchmarking

Basic Bioinformatics

Foundational methods, benchmarking, and reproducibility infrastructure. The methodological backbone of CTIR's applied work: interpretable dimensionality reduction, RNA-seq fundamentals, simulation-based benchmarking, and reproducible reporting templates that the applied projects build on.

Software:
  • songR — SONG dimensionality reduction
  • bambamR — RNA-seq pipeline fundamentals
  • dynasimR — synthetic ground-truth simulation
  • reflowR — reproducible report themes
  • hexmakR — package branding utilities