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The crisprVerse is a modular ecosystem of R packages developed for the design and manipulation of CRISPR guide RNAs (gRNAs). All packages share a common language and design principles. This package is designed to make it easy to install and load the crisprVerse packages in a single step. To learn more about the crisprVerse, visit <https://www.github.com/crisprVerse>.

BEER implements a Bayesian model for analyzing phage-immunoprecipitation sequencing (PhIP-seq) data. Given a PhIPData object, BEER returns posterior probabilities of enriched antibody responses, point estimates for the relative fold-change in comparison to negative control samples, and more. Additionally, BEER provides a convenient implementation for using edgeR to identify enriched antibody responses.

A Shiny application for visualization, exploration, comparison, and filtering of CRISPR screens analyzed with MAGeCK RRA or MLE. Features include interactive plots with on-click labeling, full customization of plot aesthetics, data upload and/or download, and much more. Quickly and easily explore your CRISPR screen results and generate publication-quality figures in seconds.

The package offers statistical tests based on the 2-Wasserstein distance for detecting and characterizing differences between two distributions given in the form of samples. Functions for calculating the 2-Wasserstein distance and testing for differential distributions are provided, as well as a specifically tailored test for differential expression in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

Use this package to interface with the WikiPathways API. It provides programmatic access to WikiPathways content in multiple data and image formats, including official monthly release files and convenient GMT read/write functions.

The tidyomics ecosystem is a set of packages for ’omic data analysis that work together in harmony; they share common data representations and API design, consistent with the tidyverse ecosystem. The tidyomics package is designed to make it easy to install and load core packages from the tidyomics ecosystem with a single command.

Statistical methods for detection of differential splicing (differential exon usage) in RNA-seq and exon microarray data, using L1-regularization (lasso) to improve power.

Provides S4 classes for general nucleases, CRISPR nucleases, CRISPR nickases, and base editors.Several CRISPR-specific genome arithmetic functions are implemented to help extract genomic coordinates of spacer and protospacer sequences. Commonly-used CRISPR nuclease objects are provided that can be readily used in other packages. Both DNA- and RNA-targeting nucleases are supported.

Spatially-aware quality control (QC) software for both spot-level and artifact-level QC in spot-based spatial transcripomics, such as 10x Visium. These methods calculate local (nearest-neighbors) mean and variance of standard QC metrics (library size, unique genes, and mitochondrial percentage) to identify outliers spot and large technical artifacts.

This package aims to import, parse, and analyze KEGG data such as KEGG PATHWAY and KEGG MODULE. The package supports visualizing KEGG information using ggplot2 and ggraph through using the grammar of graphics. The package enables the direct visualization of the results from various omics analysis packages.

We present a statistical simulator, scDesign3, to generate realistic single-cell and spatial omics data, including various cell states, experimental designs, and feature modalities, by learning interpretable parameters from real data. Using a unified probabilistic model for single-cell and spatial omics data, scDesign3 infers biologically meaningful parameters; assesses the goodness-of-fit of inferred cell clusters, trajectories, and spatial locations; and generates in silico negative and positive controls for benchmarking computational tools.

peakCombiner, a fully R based, user-friendly, transparent, and customizable tool that allows even novice R users to create a high-quality consensus peak list. The modularity of its functions allows an easy way to optimize input and output data. A broad range of accepted input data formats can be used to create a consensus peak set that can be exported to a file or used as the starting point for most downstream peak analyses.

The easylift package provides a convenient tool for genomic liftover operations between different genome assemblies. It seamlessly works with Bioconductor's GRanges objects and chain files from the UCSC Genome Browser, allowing for straightforward handling of genomic ranges across various genome versions. One noteworthy feature of easylift is its integration with the BiocFileCache package. This integration automates the management and caching of chain files necessary for liftover operations. Users no longer need to manually specify chain file paths in their function calls, reducing the complexity of the liftover process.

This package implements an attribute-weighted aggregation algorithm which leverages peptide-spectrum match (PSM) attributes to provide a more accurate estimate of protein abundance compared to conventional aggregation methods. This algorithm employs pre-trained random forest models to predict the quantitative inaccuracy of PSMs based on their attributes. PSMs are then aggregated to the protein level using a weighted average, taking the predicted inaccuracy into account. Additionally, the package allows users to construct their own training sets that are more relevant to their specific experimental conditions if desired.

dandelionR is an R package for performing single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis, based on the original python implementation. It provides the necessary functions to interface with scRepertoire and a custom implementation of an absorbing Markov chain for pseudotime inference, inspired by the Palantir Python package.

Provides a comprehensive framework for representing, analyzing, and visualizing genomic interactions, particularly focusing on gene-enhancer relationships. The package extends the GenomicRanges infrastructure to handle paired genomic regions with specialized methods for chromatin interaction data from Hi-C, Promoter Capture Hi-C (PCHi-C), and single-cell ATAC-seq experiments. Key features include conversion from common interaction formats, annotation of promoters and enhancers, distance-based analyses, interaction strength metrics, statistical modeling using CHiCANE methodology, and tailored visualization tools. The package aims to standardize the representation of genomic interaction data while providing domain-specific functions not available in general genomic interaction packages.

Most human genes have multiple promoters that control the expression of different isoforms. The use of these alternative promoters enables the regulation of isoform expression pre-transcriptionally. Alternative promoters have been found to be important in a wide number of cell types and diseases. proActiv is an R package that enables the analysis of promoters from RNA-seq data. proActiv uses aligned reads as input, and generates counts and normalized promoter activity estimates for each annotated promoter. In particular, proActiv accepts junction files from TopHat2 or STAR or BAM files as inputs. These estimates can then be used to identify which promoter is active, which promoter is inactive, and which promoters change their activity across conditions. proActiv also allows visualization of promoter activity across conditions.

High-throughput single-cell measurements of DNA methylation allows studying inter-cellular epigenetic heterogeneity, but this task faces the challenges of sparsity and noise. We present vmrseq, a statistical method that overcomes these challenges and identifies variably methylated regions accurately and robustly.

The DNEA R package is the latest implementation of the Differential Network Enrichment Analysis algorithm and is the successor to the Filigree Java-application described in Iyer et al. (2020). The package is designed to take as input an m x n expression matrix for some -omics modality (ie. metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, etc.) and jointly estimate the biological network associations of each condition using the DNEA algorithm described in Ma et al. (2019). This approach provides a framework for data-driven enrichment analysis across two experimental conditions that utilizes the underlying correlation structure of the data to determine feature-feature interactions.

This package is a Shiny app for interactively analyzing and visualizing Nanostring GeoMX Whole Transcriptome Atlas data. Users have the option of exploring a sample data to explore this app's functionality. Regions of interest (ROIs) can be filtered based on any user-provided metadata. Upon taking two or more groups of interest, all pairwise and ANOVA-like testing are automatically performed. Available ouputs include PCA, Volcano plots, tables and heatmaps. Aesthetics of each output are highly customizable.

Tools for plotting SingleCellExperiment objects in the chevreulPlot package. Includes functions for analysis and visualization of single-cell data. Supported by NIH grants R01CA137124 and R01EY026661 to David Cobrinik.

This package helps user to do easily RNA-seq data analysis with multiple methods (usually which needs many different input formats). Here the user will provid the expression data as a SummarizedExperiment object and will get results from different methods. It will help user to quickly evaluate different methods.

Tools for analyzing SingleCellExperiment objects as projects. for input into the chevreulShiny app downstream. Includes functions for analysis of single cell RNA sequencing data. Supported by NIH grants R01CA137124 and R01EY026661 to David Cobrinik.

Tools for managing SingleCellExperiment objects as projects. Includes functions for analysis and visualization of single-cell data. Also included is a shiny app for visualization of pre-processed scRNA data. Supported by NIH grants R01CA137124 and R01EY026661 to David Cobrinik.

G-quadruplexes (G4s) are unique nucleic acid secondary structures predominantly found in guanine-rich regions and have been shown to be involved in various biological regulatory processes. G4SNVHunter is an R package designed to rapidly identify genomic sequences with G4-forming propensity and to accurately screen user-provided single nucleotide variants—as well as other small-scale variants such as indels and MNVs—for their potential to destabilize these structures. This allows researchers to then screen these critical variants for deeper study, digging into how they might influence biological functions—think gene regulation, for instance—by impairing G4 formation propensity.

CircSeqAlignTk is a toolkit for the analysis of RNA-Seq data derived from circular genome sequences, with a primary focus on viroids, circular RNAs typically consisting of a few hundred nucleotides. The toolkit supports an end-to-end analysis pipeline, from alignment to visualization.

This package provides functions for differential chromatin interaction analysis between two single-cell Hi-C data groups. It includes tools for imputation, normalization, and differential analysis of chromatin interactions. The package implements pooling techniques for imputation and offers methods to normalize and test for differential interactions across single-cell Hi-C datasets.

XAItest is an R Package that identifies features using eXplainable AI (XAI) methods such as SHAP or LIME. This package allows users to compare these methods with traditional statistical tests like t-tests, empirical Bayes, and Fisher's test. Additionally, it includes simThresh, a system that enables the comparison of feature importance with p-values by incorporating calibrated simulated data.

Package designed to aid in classifying cells from single-cell RNA sequencing data using external reference data (e.g., bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, microarray, gene lists). A variety of correlation based methods and gene list enrichment methods are provided to assist cell type assignment.

SpatialDE is a method to find spatially variable genes (SVG) from spatial transcriptomics data. This package provides wrappers to use the Python SpatialDE library in R, using reticulate and basilisk.

High performance functions for row and column operations on sparse matrices. For example: col / rowMeans2, col / rowMedians, col / rowVars etc. Currently, the optimizations are limited to data in the column sparse format. This package is inspired by the matrixStats package by Henrik Bengtsson.

The Lheuristic package identifies scatterpots that follow and L-shaped, negative distribution. It can be used to identify genes regulated by methylation by integration of an expression and a methylation array. The package uses two different methods to detect expression and methyaltion L- shapped scatterplots. The parameters can be changed to detect other scatterplot patterns.

tLOH, or transcriptomicsLOH, assesses evidence for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in pre-processed spatial transcriptomics data. This tool requires spatial transcriptomics cluster and allele count information at likely heterozygous single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) positions in VCF format. Bayes factors are calculated at each SNP to determine likelihood of potential loss of heterozygosity event. Two plotting functions are included to visualize allele fraction and aggregated Bayes factor per chromosome. Data generated with the 10X Genomics Visium Spatial Gene Expression platform must be pre-processed to obtain an individual sample VCF with columns for each cluster. Required fields are allele depth (AD) with counts for reference/alternative alleles and read depth (DP).

Base-resolution copy number analysis of viral genome. Utilizes base-resolution read depth data over viral genome to find copy number segments with two-dimensional segmentation approach. Provides publish-ready figures, including histograms of read depths, coverage line plots over viral genome annotated with copy number change events and viral genes, and heatmaps showing multiple types of data with integrative clustering of samples.

A toolbox for sparse contrastive principal component analysis (scPCA) of high-dimensional biological data. scPCA combines the stability and interpretability of sparse PCA with contrastive PCA's ability to disentangle biological signal from unwanted variation through the use of control data. Also implements and extends cPCA.

DegCre generates associations between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and cis-regulatory elements (CREs) based on non-parametric concordance between differential data. The user provides GRanges of DEG TSS and CRE regions with differential p-value and optionally log-fold changes and DegCre returns an annotated Hits object with associations and their calculated probabilities. Additionally, the package provides functionality for visualization and conversion to other formats.

stJoincount facilitates the application of join count analysis to spatial transcriptomic data generated from the 10x Genomics Visium platform. This tool first converts a labeled spatial tissue map into a raster object, in which each spatial feature is represented by a pixel coded by label assignment. This process includes automatic calculation of optimal raster resolution and extent for the sample. A neighbors list is then created from the rasterized sample, in which adjacent and diagonal neighbors for each pixel are identified. After adding binary spatial weights to the neighbors list, a multi-categorical join count analysis is performed to tabulate "joins" between all possible combinations of label pairs. The function returns the observed join counts, the expected count under conditions of spatial randomness, and the variance calculated under non-free sampling. The z-score is then calculated as the difference between observed and expected counts, divided by the square root of the variance.

Provides a user-friendly interface to map on-targets and off-targets of CRISPR gRNA spacer sequences using bowtie. The alignment is fast, and can be performed using either commonly-used or custom CRISPR nucleases. The alignment can work with any reference or custom genomes. Both DNA- and RNA-targeting nucleases are supported.

The software uses the copy number segments from a text file and identifies all chromosome arms that are globally altered and computes various genome-wide scores. The following HRD scores (characteristic of BRCA-mutated cancers) are included: LST, HR-LOH, nLST and gLOH. the package is tailored for the ThermoFisher Oncoscan assay analyzed with their Chromosome Alteration Suite (ChAS) but can be adapted to any input.

Damsel provides an end to end analysis of DamID data. Damsel takes bam files from Dam-only control and fusion samples and counts the reads matching to each GATC region. edgeR is utilised to identify regions of enrichment in the fusion relative to the control. Enriched regions are combined into peaks, and are associated with nearby genes. Damsel allows for IGV style plots to be built as the results build, inspired by ggcoverage, and using the functionality and layering ability of ggplot2. Damsel also conducts gene ontology testing with bias correction through goseq, and future versions of Damsel will also incorporate motif enrichment analysis. Overall, Damsel is the first package allowing for an end to end analysis with visual capabilities. The goal of Damsel was to bring all the analysis into one place, and allow for exploratory analysis within R.

This packages simulates spatial transcriptomics data with the mean- variance relationship using a Gaussian Process model per gene.

A collection of microRNAs/targets from external resources, including validated microRNA-target databases (miRecords, miRTarBase and TarBase), predicted microRNA-target databases (DIANA-microT, ElMMo, MicroCosm, miRanda, miRDB, PicTar, PITA and TargetScan) and microRNA-disease/drug databases (miR2Disease, Pharmaco-miR VerSe and PhenomiR).

This package provides a set of functions useful in the analysis of 3D genomic interactions. It includes the import of standard HiC data formats into R and HiC normalisation procedures. The main objective of this package is to improve the visualization and quantification of the analysis of HiC contacts through aggregation. The package allows to import 1D genomics data, such as peaks from ATACSeq, ChIPSeq, to create potential couples between features of interest under user-defined parameters such as distance between pairs of features of interest. It allows then the extraction of contact values from the HiC data for these couples and to perform Aggregated Peak Analysis (APA) for visualization, but also to compare normalized contact values between conditions. Overall the package allows to integrate 1D genomics data with 3D genomics data, providing an easy access to HiC contact values.

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.

squallms is a Bioconductor R package that implements a "semi-labeled" approach to untargeted mass spectrometry data. It pulls in raw data from mass-spec files to calculate several metrics that are then used to label MS features in bulk as high or low quality. These metrics of peak quality are then passed to a simple logistic model that produces a fully-labeled dataset suitable for downstream analysis.

The R implementation for the Grammar of Succint Lipid Nomenclature parses different short hand notation dialects for lipid names. It normalizes them to a standard name. It further provides calculated monoisotopic masses and sum formulas for each successfully parsed lipid name and supplements it with LIPID MAPS Category and Class information. Also, the structural level and further structural details about the head group, fatty acyls and functional groups are returned, where applicable.

MoleculeExperiment contains functions to create and work with objects from the new MoleculeExperiment class. We introduce this class for analysing molecule-based spatial transcriptomics data (e.g., Xenium by 10X, Cosmx SMI by Nanostring, and Merscope by Vizgen). This allows researchers to analyse spatial transcriptomics data at the molecule level, and to have standardised data formats accross vendors.

The 'funOmics' package ggregates or summarizes omics data into higher level functional representations such as GO terms gene sets or KEGG metabolic pathways. The aggregated data matrix represents functional activity scores that facilitate the analysis of functional molecular sets while allowing to reduce dimensionality and provide easier and faster biological interpretations. Coordinated functional activity scores can be as informative as single molecules!

tidyFlowCore bridges the gap between flow cytometry analysis using the flowCore Bioconductor package and the tidy data principles advocated by the tidyverse. It provides a suite of dplyr-, ggplot2-, and tidyr-like verbs specifically designed for working with flowFrame and flowSet objects as if they were tibbles; however, your data remain flowCore data structures under this layer of abstraction. tidyFlowCore enables intuitive and streamlined analysis workflows that can leverage both the Bioconductor and tidyverse ecosystems for cytometry data.

survClust is an outcome weighted integrative clustering algorithm used to classify multi-omic samples on their available time to event information. The resulting clusters are cross-validated to avoid over overfitting and output classification of samples that are molecularly distinct and clinically meaningful. It takes in binary (mutation) as well as continuous data (other omic types).