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The VISTA (Visualization and Integrated System for Transcriptomic Analysis) platform streamlines differential expression workflows by wrapping DESeq2 and edgeR into a SummarizedExperiment-based container with consistent metadata. The package includes visualization utilities, MSigDB enrichment helpers, and optional deconvolution support to simplify interactive exploration of RNA-seq experiments.

High level functions to assist in annotation of (metabolomics) data sets. These include functions to perform simple tentative annotations based on mass matching but also functions to consider m/z and retention times for annotation of LC-MS features given that respective reference values are available. In addition, the function provides high-level functions to simplify matching of LC-MS/MS spectra against spectral libraries and objects and functionality to represent and manage such matched data.

Gene Set Variation Analysis (GSVA) is a non-parametric, unsupervised method for estimating variation of gene set enrichment through the samples of a expression data set. GSVA performs a change in coordinate systems, transforming the data from a gene by sample matrix to a gene-set by sample matrix, thereby allowing the evaluation of pathway enrichment for each sample. This new matrix of GSVA enrichment scores facilitates applying standard analytical methods like functional enrichment, survival analysis, clustering, CNV-pathway analysis or cross-tissue pathway analysis, in a pathway-centric manner.

Functions, workflow, and a Shiny application for visualizing sequence conservation and designing degenerate primers, probes, and (RT)-(q/d)PCR assays from a multiple DNA sequence alignment. The results can be presented in data frame format and visualized as dashboard-like plots. For more information, please see the package vignette.

SimBu can be used to simulate bulk RNA-seq datasets with known cell type fractions. You can either use your own single-cell study for the simulation or the sfaira database. Different pre-defined simulation scenarios exist, as are options to run custom simulations. Additionally, expression values can be adapted by adding an mRNA bias, which produces more biologically relevant simulations.

The ToppGene Suite is a one-stop portal for gene list enrichment analysis and candidate gene prioritization based on functional annotations and protein interactions network. Although the ToppCluster web application provides convenient graphical access to the ToppGene Suite, the OpenAPI 3.0 compliant interface of ToppGene is better suited for automation and reproducibility. This package includes Bioconductor class interfaces and biological examples.

Provides functionality for processing and statistical analysis of multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVE) and similar data. The package contains functions covering the full workflow from raw FASTQ files to publication-ready visualizations. A broad range of library designs can be processed with a single, unified interface.

GBScleanR is a package for quality check, filtering, and error correction of genotype data derived from next generation sequcener (NGS) based genotyping platforms. GBScleanR takes Variant Call Format (VCF) file as input. The main function of this package is `estGeno()` which estimates the true genotypes of samples from given read counts for genotype markers using a hidden Markov model with incorporating uneven observation ratio of allelic reads. This implementation gives robust genotype estimation even in noisy genotype data usually observed in Genotyping-By-Sequnencing (GBS) and similar methods, e.g. RADseq. The current implementation accepts genotype data of a diploid population at any generation of multi-parental cross, e.g. biparental F2 from inbred parents, biparental F2 from outbred parents, and 8-way recombinant inbred lines (8-way RILs) which can be refered to as MAGIC population.

This is a R package to compute the automorphisms between pairwise aligned DNA sequences represented as elements from a Genomic Abelian group. In a general scenario, from genomic regions till the whole genomes from a given population (from any species or close related species) can be algebraically represented as a direct sum of cyclic groups or more specifically Abelian p-groups. Basically, we propose the representation of multiple sequence alignments of length N bp as element of a finite Abelian group created by the direct sum of homocyclic Abelian group of prime-power order.

This is an R/shiny package to perform functional enrichment analysis for microbiome data. This package was based on clusterProfiler. Moreover, MicrobiomeProfiler support KEGG enrichment analysis, COG enrichment analysis, Microbe-Disease association enrichment analysis, Metabo-Pathway analysis.

Spatial transcriptomic technologies have helped to resolve the connection between gene expression and the 2D orientation of tissues relative to each other. However, the limited single-cell resolution makes it difficult to highlight the most important molecular interactions in these tissues. SpaceMarkers, R/Bioconductor software, can help to find molecular interactions, by identifying genes associated with latent space interactions in spatial transcriptomics.

ClustIRR analyzes repertoires of B- and T-cell receptors. It starts by identifying communities of immune receptors with similar specificities, based on the sequences of their complementarity-determining regions (CDRs). Next, it employs a Bayesian probabilistic models to quantify differential community occupancy (DCO) between repertoires, allowing the identification of expanding or contracting communities in response to e.g. infection or cancer treatment.

Fit a latent embedding multivariate regression (LEMUR) model to multi-condition single-cell data. The model provides a parametric description of single-cell data measured with treatment vs. control or more complex experimental designs. The parametric model is used to (1) align conditions, (2) predict log fold changes between conditions for all cells, and (3) identify cell neighborhoods with consistent log fold changes. For those neighborhoods, a pseudobulked differential expression test is conducted to assess which genes are significantly changed.

An R interface to the HISAT2 spliced short-read aligner by Kim et al. (2015). The package contains wrapper functions to create a genome index and to perform the read alignment to the generated index.

This package provides an R wrapper around the popular bowtie short read aligner and around SpliceMap, a de novo splice junction discovery and alignment tool. The package is used by the QuasR bioconductor package. We recommend to use the QuasR package instead of using Rbowtie directly.

MOGAMUN is a multi-objective genetic algorithm that identifies active modules in a multiplex biological network. This allows analyzing different biological networks at the same time. MOGAMUN is based on NSGA-II (Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm, version II), which we adapted to work on networks.

This package provides functions used in Seqtometry (Kousnetsov et al. 2024), a method for analyzing single cell (scRNA-seq or scATAC-seq) data via signature (gene set) enrichment scores. The Seqtometry scores may be useful for annotating or characterizing cells, either in a flow cytometry like workflow (where scores are standalone features used for progressive partitoning as described in the Seqtometry publication) or in a cluster-based workflow (as features of clusters). The exported impute function (a port of Python's MAGIC-impute, van Dijk et al. 2018), may also be useful for single cell analysis on its own.

The main function is doppelgangR(), which takes as minimal input a list of ExpressionSet object, and searches all list pairs for duplicated samples. The search is based on the genomic data (exprs(eset)), phenotype/clinical data (pData(eset)), and "smoking guns" - supposedly unique identifiers found in pData(eset).

RankMap is a fast and scalable tool for reference-based cell type annotation of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. It uses ranked gene expression and multinomial regression to achieve robust predictions, even with partial gene coverage. Compatible with Seurat, SingleCellExperiment, and SpatialExperiment objects, RankMap offers flexible preprocessing and significantly faster runtime than tools like SingleR, Azimuth, and RCTD.

GSABenchmark is a package designed for benchmarking scRNA-seq gene set analysis (scGSA) methods. It provides both traditional and novel benchmark metrics, as well as visualization tools. Currently, GSABenchmark supports 17 scGSA methods.

Tools for manipulating paired ranges and working with Hi-C data in R. Functionality includes manipulating/merging paired regions, generating paired ranges, extracting/aggregating interactions from `.hic` files, and visualizing the results. Designed for compatibility with plotgardener for visualization.

`amplican` performs alignment of the amplicon reads, normalizes gathered data, calculates multiple statistics (e.g. cut rates, frameshifts) and presents results in form of aggregated reports. Data and statistics can be broken down by experiments, barcodes, user defined groups, guides and amplicons allowing for quick identification of potential problems.

SpatialFeatureExperiment (SFE) is a new S4 class for working with spatial single-cell genomics data. The voyager package implements basic exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) methods for SFE. Univariate methods include univariate global spatial ESDA methods such as Moran's I, permutation testing for Moran's I, and correlograms. Bivariate methods include Lee's L and cross variogram. Multivariate methods include MULTISPATI PCA and multivariate local Geary's C recently developed by Anselin. The Voyager package also implements plotting functions to plot SFE data and ESDA results.

DeeDeeExperiment is an S4 class extending the SingleCellExperiment class, designed to integrate and manage omics analysis results. It introduces two dedicated slots to store Differential Expression Analysis (DEA) results and Functional Enrichment Analysis (FEA) results, providing a structured approach for downstream analysis.

iSEEfier provides a set of functionality to quickly and intuitively create, inspect, and combine initial configuration objects. These can be conveniently passed in a straightforward manner to the function call to launch iSEE() with the specified configuration. This package currently works seamlessly with the sets of panels provided by the iSEE and iSEEu packages, but can be extended to accommodate the usage of any custom panel (e.g. from iSEEde, iSEEpathways, or any panel developed independently by the user).

Perform fast functional enrichment on feature lists (like genes or proteins) using the hypergeometric distribution. Tailored for speed, this package is ideal for interactive platforms such as Shiny. It supports the retrieval of functional data from sources like GO, KEGG, Reactome, Bioplanet and WikiPathways. By downloading and preparing data first, it allows for rapid successive tests on various feature selections without the need for repetitive, time-consuming preparatory steps typical of other packages.

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and export of MS/MS spectra data from Mascot Generic Format (mgf) files. Objects defined in this package are supposed to be used with the Spectra Bioconductor package. This package thus adds mgf file support to the Spectra package.

Bioinformatics platform containing interactive plots and tables for differential gene and region expression studies. Allows visualizing expression data much more deeply in an interactive and faster way. By changing the parameters, users can easily discover different parts of the data that like never have been done before. Manually creating and looking these plots takes time. With DEBrowser users can prepare plots without writing any code. Differential expression, PCA and clustering analysis are made on site and the results are shown in various plots such as scatter, bar, box, volcano, ma plots and Heatmaps.

The package aims to identify miRNA sponge or ceRNA modules in heterogeneous data. It provides several functions to study miRNA sponge modules at single-sample and multi-sample levels, including popular methods for inferring gene modules (candidate miRNA sponge or ceRNA modules), and two functions to identify miRNA sponge modules at single-sample and multi-sample levels, as well as several functions to conduct modular analysis of miRNA sponge modules.

This package provides modalities to analyze tumor evolution from whole genome sequencing data. In particular, it provides estimates of mutation densities at genomic segments and uses these to time the origin of the tumor.

S4 generic functions and classes needed by Bioconductor proteomics packages.

This package provides a collection of functions designed for analyzing deconvolution of the bulk sample(s) using an atlas of reference omic signature profiles and a user-selected model. Users are given the option to create or extend a reference atlas and,also simulate the desired size of the bulk signature profile of the reference cell types.The package includes the cell-type-specific methylation atlas and, Illumina Epic B5 probe ids that can be used in deconvolution. Additionally,we included BSmeth2Probe, to make mapping WGBS data to their probe IDs easier.

Tools For analyzing Illumina Infinium DNA methylation arrays. SeSAMe provides utilities to support analyses of multiple generations of Infinium DNA methylation BeadChips, including preprocessing, quality control, visualization and inference. SeSAMe features accurate detection calling, intelligent inference of ethnicity, sex and advanced quality control routines.

Create and plot diffusion maps.

A developed and benchmarked reproducible machine learning framework for microbiome-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. By systematically evaluating normalization strategies, taxonomic resolutions, and class imbalance handling. This R package allows users to apply the full pipeline or selectively run specific components depending on their analytical needs. It establishes a scalable foundation for developing interpretable microbiome-based screening tools to support early CRC detection. This approach could be easily implemented in a national screening programme, to improve early detection rates for this disease.

The geomeTriD (Three-Dimensional Geometry) Package provides interactive 3D visualization of chromatin structures using the WebGL-based 'three.js' (https://threejs.org/) or the rgl rendering library. It is designed to identify and explore spatial chromatin patterns within genomic regions. The package generates dynamic 3D plots and HTML widgets that integrate seamlessly with Shiny applications, enabling researchers to visualize chromatin organization, detect spatial features, and compare structural dynamics across different conditions and data types.

Provides standard formatting styles for Bioconductor PDF and HTML documents. Package vignettes illustrate use and functionality.

The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data. This package provides a collection of functions for retrieving, processing, and re-packaging UniProt web services. The package makes use of UniProt's modernized REST API and allows mapping of identifiers accross different databases.

Bedgraph files generated by Bisulfite pipelines often come in various flavors. Critical downstream step requires summarization of these files into methylation/coverage matrices. This step of data aggregation is done by Methrix, including many other useful downstream functions.

IsoBayes is a Bayesian method to perform inference on single protein isoforms. Our approach infers the presence/absence of protein isoforms, and also estimates their abundance; additionally, it provides a measure of the uncertainty of these estimates, via: i) the posterior probability that a protein isoform is present in the sample; ii) a posterior credible interval of its abundance. IsoBayes inputs liquid cromatography mass spectrometry (MS) data, and can work with both PSM counts, and intensities. When available, trascript isoform abundances (i.e., TPMs) are also incorporated: TPMs are used to formulate an informative prior for the respective protein isoform relative abundance. We further identify isoforms where the relative abundance of proteins and transcripts significantly differ. We use a two-layer latent variable approach to model two sources of uncertainty typical of MS data: i) peptides may be erroneously detected (even when absent); ii) many peptides are compatible with multiple protein isoforms. In the first layer, we sample the presence/absence of each peptide based on its estimated probability of being mistakenly detected, also known as PEP (i.e., posterior error probability). In the second layer, for peptides that were estimated as being present, we allocate their abundance across the protein isoforms they map to. These two steps allow us to recover the presence and abundance of each protein isoform.

distinct is a statistical method to perform differential testing between two or more groups of distributions; differential testing is performed via hierarchical non-parametric permutation tests on the cumulative distribution functions (cdfs) of each sample. While most methods for differential expression target differences in the mean abundance between conditions, distinct, by comparing full cdfs, identifies, both, differential patterns involving changes in the mean, as well as more subtle variations that do not involve the mean (e.g., unimodal vs. bi-modal distributions with the same mean). distinct is a general and flexible tool: due to its fully non-parametric nature, which makes no assumptions on how the data was generated, it can be applied to a variety of datasets. It is particularly suitable to perform differential state analyses on single cell data (i.e., differential analyses within sub-populations of cells), such as single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and high-dimensional flow or mass cytometry (HDCyto) data. To use distinct one needs data from two or more groups of samples (i.e., experimental conditions), with at least 2 samples (i.e., biological replicates) per group.

CopyNumberPlots have a set of functions extending karyoploteRs functionality to create beautiful, customizable and flexible plots of copy-number related data.

Test for univariate and bivariate spatial patterns in spatial omics data with single-molecule resolution. The tests implemented allow for analysis of nested designs and are automatically calibrated to different biological specimens. Tests for aggregation, colocalization, gradients and vicinity to cell edge or centroid are provided.

Generate QC reports summarizing the output from an alevin, alevin-fry, or simpleaf run. Reports can be generated as html or pdf files, or as shiny applications.

Studies including both microbiome and metabolomics data are becoming more common. Often, it would be helpful to integrate both datasets in order to see if they corroborate each others patterns. All vs all association is imprecise and likely to yield spurious associations. This package takes a knowledge-based approach to constrain association search space, only considering metabolite-function pairs that have been recorded in a pathway database. This package also provides a framework to assess differential association.

'tidySingleCellExperiment' is an adapter that abstracts the 'SingleCellExperiment' container in the form of a 'tibble'. This allows *tidy* data manipulation, nesting, and plotting. For example, a 'tidySingleCellExperiment' is directly compatible with functions from 'tidyverse' packages `dplyr` and `tidyr`, as well as plotting with `ggplot2` and `plotly`. In addition, the package provides various utility functions specific to single-cell omics data analysis (e.g., aggregation of cell-level data to pseudobulks).

Transcript quantification import from Salmon and other quantifiers with automatic attachment of transcript ranges and release information, and other associated metadata. De novo transcriptomes can be linked to the appropriate sources with linkedTxomes and shared for computational reproducibility.

A tabular style data object where most data is stored outside main memory. A buffer is used to speed up access to data.

A package that extends and improves the functionality of the base affy package. Routines that make heavy use of compiled code for speed. Central focus is on implementation of methods for fitting probe-level models and tools using these models. PLM based quality assessment tools.

Routines for parsing Affymetrix data files based upon file format information. Primary focus is on accessing the CEL and CDF file formats.