Starfish is a Python library that lets you build scalable and modular pipelines for processing image-based transcriptomics data. Starfish is developed in the open in collaboration with SpaceTx. SpaceTx is a consortium effort to benchmark image based transcriptomic methods by applying 10 different methods on a common tissue source, standardizing the raw data formats and using standardized analysis pipelines.
For detailed information on installation and usage, see the documentation.
To see what improvements the developers have planned for starfish, please see the :ref:`roadmap`.
We are currently in beta, finishing proof of concept pipelines for each of the spaceTx contributors that leverage starfish's shared object model. Follow the links in the table below to see starfish in action on particular assay types. Or, browse our our notebooks directory here.
| Assay | Loads Data | Single-FoV Pipeline | Multi-FoV Pipeline |
| MERFISH | [x] | [x] mer | in process |
| ISS | [x] | [x] iss | [x] |
| osmFISH | [x] | [x] osm | [ ] |
| smFISH | [x] | [x] 3ds | [x] |
| BaristaSeq | [x] | [x] bar | [ ] |
| DARTFISH | [x] | [x] dar | [ ] |
| ex-FISH | [x] | [ ] | [ ] |
| StarMAP | [x] | [x] str | [ ] |
| seq-FISH | [x] | in process: seq | [ ] |
| FISSEQ | no data | no pipeline | [ ] |
We are very interested in contributions! See our contributing.rst and documentation for more information.