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The Zarr specification defines a format for chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays. It's design allows efficient access to subsets of the stored array, and supports both local and cloud storage systems. Rarr aims to implement this specification in R with minimal reliance on an external tools or libraries.

BED files store ranged genomic data that can be queried even when the files are compressed. iscream can query data from BED files and return them in muliple formats: parsed records or their summary statistics as data frames or GenomicRanges objects, and matrices as matrix, GenomicRanges, or SummarizedExperiment objects. iscream also provides specialized support for importing methylation data.

This package allows to efficiently obtain count vectors from indexed bam files. It counts the number of reads in given genomic ranges and it computes reads profiles and coverage profiles. It also handles paired-end data.

Programmatically access the NIH / NCI Genomic Data Commons RESTful service.

This package implements sampling, iteration, and input of FASTQ files. The package includes functions for filtering and trimming reads, and for generating a quality assessment report. Data are represented as DNAStringSet-derived objects, and easily manipulated for a diversity of purposes. The package also contains legacy support for early single-end, ungapped alignment formats.

'OSTA.data' is a companion package for the "Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis" (OSTA) with Bioconductor online book. Throughout OSTA, we rely on a set of publicly available datasets that cover different sequencing- and imaging-based platforms, such as Visium, Visium HD, Xenium (10x Genomics) and CosMx (NanoString). In addition, we rely on scRNA-seq (Chromium) data for tasks, e.g., spot deconvolution and label transfer (i.e., supervised clustering). These data been deposited in an Open Storage Framework (OSF) repository, and can be queried and downloaded using functions from the 'osfr' package. For convenience, we have implemented 'OSTA.data' to query and retrieve data from our OSF node, and cache retrieved Zip archives using 'BiocFileCache'.

Imports transcript-level abundance, estimated counts and transcript lengths, and summarizes into matrices for use with downstream gene-level analysis packages. Average transcript length, weighted by sample-specific transcript abundance estimates, is provided as a matrix which can be used as an offset for different expression of gene-level counts.

The Structstrings package implements the widely used dot bracket annotation for storing base pairing information in structured RNA. Structstrings uses the infrastructure provided by the Biostrings package and derives the DotBracketString and related classes from the BString class. From these, base pair tables can be produced for in depth analysis. In addition, the loop indices of the base pairs can be retrieved as well. For better efficiency, information conversion is implemented in C, inspired to a large extend by the ViennaRNA package.

Saves the delayed operations of a DelayedArray to a HDF5 file. This enables efficient recovery of the DelayedArray's contents in other languages and analysis frameworks.

Client for the gypsum REST API (https://gypsum.artifactdb.com), a cloud-based file store in the ArtifactDB ecosystem. This package provides functions for uploads, downloads, and various adminstrative and management tasks. Check out the documentation at https://github.com/ArtifactDB/gypsum-worker for more details.

An R package which interfaces the OME Bio-Formats Java library to allow reading of proprietary microscopy image data and metadata.

scCB2 is an R package implementing CB2 for distinguishing real cells from empty droplets in droplet-based single cell RNA-seq experiments (especially for 10x Chromium). It is based on clustering similar barcodes and calculating Monte-Carlo p-value for each cluster to test against background distribution. This cluster-level test outperforms single-barcode-level tests in dealing with low count barcodes and homogeneous sequencing library, while keeping FDR well controlled.

The Connectivity Map (CMap) is a massive resource of perturbational gene expression profiles built by researchers at the Broad Institute and funded by the NIH Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program. Please visit https://clue.io for more information. The cmapR package implements methods to parse, manipulate, and write common CMap data objects, such as annotated matrices and collections of gene sets.