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Defining the identity of a cell is fundamental to understand the heterogeneity of cells to various environmental signals and perturbations. We present Cepo, a new method to explore cell identities from single-cell RNA-sequencing data using differential stability as a new metric to define cell identity genes. Cepo computes cell-type specific gene statistics pertaining to differential stable gene expression.

This package provides the necessary functions for performing the Partial Correlation coefficient with Information Theory (PCIT) (Reverter and Chan 2008) and Regulatory Impact Factors (RIF) (Reverter et al. 2010) algorithm. The PCIT algorithm identifies meaningful correlations to define edges in a weighted network and can be applied to any correlation-based network including but not limited to gene co-expression networks, while the RIF algorithm identify critical Transcription Factors (TF) from gene expression data. These two algorithms when combined provide a very relevant layer of information for gene expression studies (Microarray, RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq data).

Strand specific peak-pair calling in ChIP-exo replicates. The cumulative Skellam distribution function is used to detect significant normalised count differences of opposed sign at each DNA strand (peak-pairs). Then, irreproducible discovery rate for overlapping peak-pairs across biological replicates is computed.

The package provides functions for calculation of linear-quadratic cell survival curves and for ANOVA of experimental 2-way designs along with the colony formation assay.

This package provides basic functions for analyzing shallow whole-genome sequencing (~0.3X or more) of cell-free DNA (cfDNA). The package basically extracts the length of cfDNA fragments and aids the vistualization of fragment-length information. The package also extract fragment-length information per non-overlapping fixed-sized bins and used it for calculating ctDNA estimation score (CES).

The cfTools R package provides methods for cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation data analysis to facilitate cfDNA-based studies. Given the methylation sequencing data of a cfDNA sample, for each cancer marker or tissue marker, we deconvolve the tumor-derived or tissue-specific reads from all reads falling in the marker region. Our read-based deconvolution algorithm exploits the pervasiveness of DNA methylation for signal enhancement, therefore can sensitively identify a trace amount of tumor-specific or tissue-specific cfDNA in plasma. cfTools provides functions for (1) cancer detection: sensitively detect tumor-derived cfDNA and estimate the tumor-derived cfDNA fraction (tumor burden); (2) tissue deconvolution: infer the tissue type composition and the cfDNA fraction of multiple tissue types for a plasma cfDNA sample. These functions can serve as foundations for more advanced cfDNA-based studies, including cancer diagnosis and disease monitoring.

This is a package for analysis of case-control data in genetic epidemiology. It provides a set of statistical methods for evaluating gene-environment (or gene-genes) interactions under multiplicative and additive risk models, with or without assuming gene-environment (or gene-gene) independence in the underlying population.

Calls aberrations for array CGH data using a six state mixture model as well as several biological concepts that are ignored by existing algorithms. Visualization of profiles is also provided.

This package provides functions to identify genomic regions of interests based on segmented copy number data from multiple samples.

Normalization and centralization of array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) data. The algorithm uses an iterative procedure that effectively eliminates the influence of imbalanced copy numbers. This leads to a more reliable assessment of copy number alterations (CNAs).

Dimension Reduction for Array CGH Data with Minimal Information Loss

The package includes quality control metrics, a selection of normalization methods and novel methods to identify differentially methylated regions and to highlight copy number alterations.

ChemmineOB provides an R interface to a subset of cheminformatics functionalities implemented by the OpelBabel C++ project. OpenBabel is an open source cheminformatics toolbox that includes utilities for structure format interconversions, descriptor calculations, compound similarity searching and more. ChemineOB aims to make a subset of these utilities available from within R. For non-developers, ChemineOB is primarily intended to be used from ChemmineR as an add-on package rather than used directly.

CHETAH (CHaracterization of cEll Types Aided by Hierarchical classification) is an accurate, selective and fast scRNA-seq classifier. Classification is guided by a reference dataset, preferentially also a scRNA-seq dataset. By hierarchical clustering of the reference data, CHETAH creates a classification tree that enables a step-wise, top-to-bottom classification. Using a novel stopping rule, CHETAH classifies the input cells to the cell types of the references and to "intermediate types": more general classifications that ended in an intermediate node of the tree.

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.

A pipeline for analysing Capture Hi-C data.

ChIPanalyser is a package to predict and understand TF binding by utilizing a statistical thermodynamic model. The model incorporates 4 main factors thought to drive TF binding: Chromatin State, Binding energy, Number of bound molecules and a scaling factor modulating TF binding affinity. Taken together, ChIPanalyser produces ChIP-like profiles that closely mimic the patterns seens in real ChIP-seq data.

ChIPComp detects differentially bound sharp binding sites across multiple conditions considering matching control.

ChIP-Enrich and Poly-Enrich perform gene set enrichment testing using peaks called from a ChIP-seq experiment. The method empirically corrects for confounding factors such as the length of genes, and the mappability of the sequence surrounding genes.

Package with a quality control pipeline for ChIP-exo/nexus data.

The package encompasses a range of functions for identifying the closest gene, exon, miRNA, or custom features—such as highly conserved elements and user-supplied transcription factor binding sites. Additionally, users can retrieve sequences around the peaks and obtain enriched Gene Ontology (GO) or Pathway terms. In version 2.0.5 and beyond, new functionalities have been introduced. These include features for identifying peaks associated with bi-directional promoters along with summary statistics (peaksNearBDP), summarizing motif occurrences in peaks (summarizePatternInPeaks), and associating additional identifiers with annotated peaks or enrichedGO (addGeneIDs). The package integrates with various other packages such as biomaRt, IRanges, Biostrings, BSgenome, GO.db, multtest, and stat to enhance its analytical capabilities.

Quality metrics for ChIPseq data.

This package implements functions to retrieve the nearest genes around the peak, annotate genomic region of the peak, statstical methods for estimate the significance of overlap among ChIP peak data sets, and incorporate GEO database for user to compare the own dataset with those deposited in database. The comparison can be used to infer cooperative regulation and thus can be used to generate hypotheses. Several visualization functions are implemented to summarize the coverage of the peak experiment, average profile and heatmap of peaks binding to TSS regions, genomic annotation, distance to TSS, and overlap of peaks or genes.

Tools for helping process short read data for chipseq experiments.

ChIPseqR identifies protein binding sites from ChIP-seq and nucleosome positioning experiments. The model used to describe binding events was developed to locate nucleosomes but should flexible enough to handle other types of experiments as well.

A general framework for the simulation of ChIP-seq data. Although currently focused on nucleosome positioning the package is designed to support different types of experiments.

ChIPXpress takes as input predicted TF bound genes from ChIPx data and uses a corresponding database of gene expression profiles downloaded from NCBI GEO to rank the TF bound targets in order of which gene is most likely to be functional TF target.

Implements classes and methods for large-scale SNP association studies

ChromDraw is a R package for drawing the schemes of karyotype(s) in the linear and circular fashion. It is possible to visualized cytogenetic marsk on the chromosomes. This tool has own input data format. Input data can be imported from the GenomicRanges data structure. This package can visualized the data in the BED file format. Here is requirement on to the first nine fields of the BED format. Output files format are *.eps and *.svg.

The ChromHeatMap package can be used to plot genome-wide data (e.g. expression, CGH, SNP) along each strand of a given chromosome as a heat map. The generated heat map can be used to interactively identify probes and genes of interest.

Package designed to visualize genomic data along the chromosomes, where the vertical chromosomes are sorted by number, with sex chromosomes at the end.

ChromSCape - Chromatin landscape profiling for Single Cells - is a ready-to-launch user-friendly Shiny Application for the analysis of single-cell epigenomics datasets (scChIP-seq, scATAC-seq, scCUT&Tag, ...) from aligned data to differential analysis & gene set enrichment analysis. It is highly interactive, enables users to save their analysis and covers a wide range of analytical steps: QC, preprocessing, filtering, batch correction, dimensionality reduction, vizualisation, clustering, differential analysis and gene set analysis.

Determine variation in chromatin accessibility across sets of annotations or peaks. Designed primarily for single-cell or sparse chromatin accessibility data, e.g. from scATAC-seq or sparse bulk ATAC or DNAse-seq experiments.

A package used for efficient unraveling of the inherent dynamic properties of pathways. MicroRNA-mediated subpathway topologies are extracted and evaluated by exploiting the temporal transition and the fold change activity of the linked genes/microRNAs.

Cicero computes putative cis-regulatory maps from single-cell chromatin accessibility data. It also extends monocle 2 for use in chromatin accessibility data.

CIGAR stands for Concise Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report. CIGAR strings are found in the BAM files produced by most aligners and in the AIRR-formatted output produced by IgBLAST. The cigarillo package provides functions to parse and inspect CIGAR strings, trim them, turn them into ranges of positions relative to the "query space" or "reference space", and project positions or sequences from one space to the other. Note that these operations are low-level operations that the user rarely needs to perform directly. More typically, they are performed behind the scene by higher-level functionality implemented in other packages like Bioconductor packages GenomicAlignments and igblastr.

R-based computational framework for a comprehensive in silico analysis of circRNAs. This computational framework allows to combine and analyze circRNAs previously detected by multiple publicly available annotation-based circRNA detection tools. It covers different aspects of circRNAs analysis from differential expression analysis, evolutionary conservation, biogenesis to functional analysis.

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.

CiteFuse pacakage implements a suite of methods and tools for CITE-seq data from pre-processing to integrative analytics, including doublet detection, network-based modality integration, cell type clustering, differential RNA and protein expression analysis, ADT evaluation, ligand-receptor interaction analysis, and interactive web-based visualisation of the analyses.

The software formalises a framework for classification and survival model evaluation in R. There are four stages; Data transformation, feature selection, model training, and prediction. The requirements of variable types and variable order are fixed, but specialised variables for functions can also be provided. The framework is wrapped in a driver loop that reproducibly carries out a number of cross-validation schemes. Functions for differential mean, differential variability, and differential distribution are included. Additional functions may be developed by the user, by creating an interface to the framework.

This package implements a Naive Bayes classifier for accurately differentiating true polyadenylation sites (pA sites) from oligo(dT)-mediated 3' end sequencing such as PAS-Seq, PolyA-Seq and RNA-Seq by filtering out false polyadenylation sites, mainly due to oligo(dT)-mediated internal priming during reverse transcription. The classifer is highly accurate and outperforms other heuristic methods.

RNA-seq data generated by some library preparation methods, such as rRNA-depletion-based method and the SMART-seq method, might be contaminated by genomic DNA (gDNA), if DNase I disgestion is not performed properly during RNA preparation. CleanUpRNAseq is developed to check if RNA-seq data is suffered from gDNA contamination. If so, it can perform correction for gDNA contamination and reduce false discovery rate of differentially expressed genes.

In-silico cleavage of polypeptide sequences. The cleavage rules are taken from: http://web.expasy.org/peptide_cutter/peptidecutter_enzymes.html

clevRvis provides a set of visualization techniques for clonal evolution. These include shark plots, dolphin plots and plaice plots. Algorithms for time point interpolation as well as therapy effect estimation are provided. Phylogeny-aware color coding is implemented. A shiny-app for generating plots interactively is additionally provided.

Methods for the nalysis of data from clinical proteomic profiling studies. The focus is on the studies of human subjects, which are often observational case-control by design and have technical replicates. A method for sample size determination for planning these studies is proposed. It incorporates routines for adjusting for the expected heterogeneities and imbalances in the data and the within-sample replicate correlations.

Implements topological gene set analysis using a two-step empirical approach. It exploits graph decomposition theory to create a junction tree and reconstruct the most relevant signal path. In the first step clipper selects significant pathways according to statistical tests on the means and the concentration matrices of the graphs derived from pathway topologies. Then, it "clips" the whole pathway identifying the signal paths having the greatest association with a specific phenotype.

An easy and fast way to visualize and profile the high-throughput IP data. This package generates the meta gene profile and other profiles. These profiles could provide valuable information for understanding the IP experiment results.

Annotates data from liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC/MS) metabolomics experiments. Based on a network algorithm (O.Senan, A. Aguilar- Mogas, M. Navarro, O. Yanes, R.Guimerà and M. Sales-Pardo, Bioinformatics, 35(20), 2019), 'CliqueMS' builds a weighted similarity network where nodes are features and edges are weighted according to the similarity of this features. Then it searches for the most plausible division of the similarity network into cliques (fully connected components). Finally it annotates metabolites within each clique, obtaining for each annotated metabolite the neutral mass and their features, corresponding to isotopes, ionization adducts and fragmentation adducts of that metabolite.

Clomial fits binomial distributions to counts obtained from Next Gen Sequencing data of multiple samples of the same tumor. The trained parameters can be interpreted to infer the clonal structure of the tumor.

Package for modified nearest-neighbor classification based on calculation of a similarity threshold distinguishing within-group from between-group comparisons.