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Mutations that rapidly accumulate in viral genomes during a pandemic can be used to track the evolution of the virus and, accordingly, unravel the viral infection network. To this extent, sequencing samples of the virus can be employed to estimate models from genomic epidemiology and may serve, for instance, to estimate the proportion of undetected infected people by uncovering cryptic transmissions, as well as to predict likely trends in the number of infected, hospitalized, dead and recovered people. VERSO is an algorithmic framework that processes variants profiles from viral samples to produce phylogenetic models of viral evolution. The approach solves a Boolean Matrix Factorization problem with phylogenetic constraints, by maximizing a log-likelihood function. VERSO includes two separate and subsequent steps; in this package we provide an R implementation of VERSO STEP 1.

Cancer is a genetic disease caused by somatic mutations in genes controlling key biological functions such as cellular growth and division. Such mutations may arise both through cell-intrinsic and exogenous processes, generating characteristic mutational patterns over the genome named mutational signatures. The study of mutational signatures have become a standard component of modern genomics studies, since it can reveal which (environmental and endogenous) mutagenic processes are active in a tumor, and may highlight markers for therapeutic response. Mutational signatures computational analysis presents many pitfalls. First, the task of determining the number of signatures is very complex and depends on heuristics. Second, several signatures have no clear etiology, casting doubt on them being computational artifacts rather than due to mutagenic processes. Last, approaches for signatures assignment are greatly influenced by the set of signatures used for the analysis. To overcome these limitations, we developed RESOLVE (Robust EStimation Of mutationaL signatures Via rEgularization), a framework that allows the efficient extraction and assignment of mutational signatures. RESOLVE implements a novel algorithm that enables (i) the efficient extraction, (ii) exposure estimation, and (iii) confidence assessment during the computational inference of mutational signatures.

LACE is an algorithmic framework that processes single-cell somatic mutation profiles from cancer samples collected at different time points and in distinct experimental settings, to produce longitudinal models of cancer evolution. The approach solves a Boolean Matrix Factorization problem with phylogenetic constraints, by maximizing a weighed likelihood function computed on multiple time points.

OncoScore is a tool to measure the association of genes to cancer based on citation frequencies in biomedical literature. The score is evaluated from PubMed literature by dynamically updatable web queries.

Tools to harmonize bulk RNA-seq matrices, optionally apply batch correction, and train cross-validated classification models using ranger, glmnet, or xgboost. Supports leakage-safe feature selection, permutation importance, SHAP-based interpretability, and calibration methods (Platt or isotonic). Provides stability metrics across folds, embeddings (PCA/UMAP), ROC visualization, SHAP dependence plots, and tidy ranked-gene tables for downstream analysis.

This package provides a DelayedArray interface for plink bed files. There is support for interfacing to plink genotype data via RangedSummarizedExperiment. Example data from the GEUVADIS project (internationalgenome.org) are used for demonstration.

Perform 3'UTR APA, Intronic APA and gene expression analysis using RNA-seq data.

Provides a consistent interface for downloading, storing, and accessing immune receptor (TCR/BCR) and HLA sequences from IMGT, IPD-IMGT/HLA, and OGRDB (AIRR-C). Supports export to popular analysis tools including MiXCR, TRUST4, Cell Ranger, and IgBLAST. This package serves as a core dependency for immunogenomics packages, ensuring reliable and high-quality sequence access with local caching for reproducibility.

Implementation of the Ibex algorithm for single-cell embedding based on BCR sequences. The package includes a standalone function to encode BCR sequence information by amino acid properties or sequence order using tensorflow-based autoencoder. In addition, the package interacts with SingleCellExperiment or Seurat data objects.

HiCool provides an R interface to process and normalize Hi-C paired-end fastq reads into .(m)cool files. .(m)cool is a compact, indexed HDF5 file format specifically tailored for efficiently storing HiC-based data. On top of processing fastq reads, HiCool provides a convenient reporting function to generate shareable reports summarizing Hi-C experiments and including quality controls.

Provides R wrappers of several on-target and off-target scoring methods for CRISPR guide RNAs (gRNAs). The following nucleases are supported: SpCas9, AsCas12a, enAsCas12a, and RfxCas13d (CasRx). The available on-target cutting efficiency scoring methods are RuleSet1, RuleSet3, DeepHF, enPAM+GB, and CRISPRscan. Both the CFD and MIT scoring methods are available for off-target specificity prediction. The package also provides a Lindel-derived score to predict the probability of a gRNA to produce indels inducing a frameshift for the Cas9 nuclease. Note that DeepHF and enPAM+GB are not available on Windows machines.

Provides a user-friendly interface to map on-targets and off-targets of CRISPR gRNA spacer sequences using bwa. 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. Currently not supported on Windows machines.

The package provides S4 classes and methods to filter, summarise and visualise genetic variation data stored in VCF files. In particular, the package extends the FilterRules class (S4Vectors package) to define news classes of filter rules applicable to the various slots of VCF objects. Functionalities are integrated and demonstrated in a Shiny web-application, the Shiny Variant Explorer (tSVE).

Complex heatmaps are efficient to visualize associations between different sources of data sets and reveal potential patterns. Here the ComplexHeatmap package provides a highly flexible way to arrange multiple heatmaps and supports various annotation graphics.

Account for missing values in label-free mass spectrometry data without imputation. The package implements a probabilistic dropout model that ensures that the information from observed and missing values are properly combined. It adds empirical Bayesian priors to increase power to detect differentially abundant proteins.

RegulonDB has collected, harmonized and centralized data from hundreds of experiments for nearly two decades and is considered a point of reference for transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli K12. Here, we present the regutools R package to facilitate programmatic access to RegulonDB data in computational biology. regutools provides researchers with the possibility of writing reproducible workflows with automated queries to RegulonDB. The regutools package serves as a bridge between RegulonDB data and the Bioconductor ecosystem by reusing the data structures and statistical methods powered by other Bioconductor packages. We demonstrate the integration of regutools with Bioconductor by analyzing transcription factor DNA binding sites and transcriptional regulatory networks from RegulonDB. We anticipate that regutools will serve as a useful building block in our progress to further our understanding of gene regulatory networks.

The iModMix network-based method offers an integrated framework for analyzing multi-omics data, including metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics data, enabling the exploration of intricate molecular associations within heterogeneous biological systems.

This package provides helper functions for working with multiple Visium capture areas that overlap each other. This package was developed along with the companion example use case data available from https://github.com/LieberInstitute/visiumStitched_brain. visiumStitched prepares SpaceRanger (10x Genomics) output files so you can stitch the images from groups of capture areas together with Fiji. Then visiumStitched builds a SpatialExperiment object with the stitched data and makes an artificial hexagonal grid enabling the seamless use of spatial clustering methods that rely on such grid to identify neighboring spots, such as PRECAST and BayesSpace. The SpatialExperiment objects created by visiumStitched are compatible with spatialLIBD, which can be used to build interactive websites for stitched SpatialExperiment objects. visiumStitched also enables casting SpatialExperiment objects as Seurat objects.

PhILR is short for Phylogenetic Isometric Log-Ratio Transform. This package provides functions for the analysis of compositional data (e.g., data representing proportions of different variables/parts). Specifically this package allows analysis of compositional data where the parts can be related through a phylogenetic tree (as is common in microbiota survey data) and makes available the Isometric Log Ratio transform built from the phylogenetic tree and utilizing a weighted reference measure.

Save Bioconductor data structures into file artifacts, and load them back into memory. This is a more robust and portable alternative to serialization of such objects into RDS files. Each artifact is associated with metadata for further interpretation; downstream applications can enrich this metadata with context-specific properties.

The recount3 package enables access to a large amount of uniformly processed RNA-seq data from human and mouse. You can download RangedSummarizedExperiment objects at the gene, exon or exon-exon junctions level with sample metadata and QC statistics. In addition we provide access to sample coverage BigWig files.

mzR provides a unified API to the common file formats and parsers available for mass spectrometry data. It comes with a subset of the proteowizard library for mzXML, mzML and mzIdentML. The netCDF reading code has previously been used in XCMS.

Explore and download data from the recount project available at https://jhubiostatistics.shinyapps.io/recount/. Using the recount package you can download RangedSummarizedExperiment objects at the gene, exon or exon-exon junctions level, the raw counts, the phenotype metadata used, the urls to the sample coverage bigWig files or the mean coverage bigWig file for a particular study. The RangedSummarizedExperiment objects can be used by different packages for performing differential expression analysis. Using http://bioconductor.org/packages/derfinder you can perform annotation-agnostic differential expression analyses with the data from the recount project as described at http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v35/n4/full/nbt.3838.html.

RNA abundance and cell size parameters could improve RNA-seq deconvolution algorithms to more accurately estimate cell type proportions given the different cell type transcription activity levels. A Total RNA Expression Gene (TREG) can facilitate estimating total RNA content using single molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization (smFISH). We developed a data-driven approach using a measure of expression invariance to find candidate TREGs in postmortem human brain single nucleus RNA-seq. This R package implements the method for identifying candidate TREGs from snRNA-seq data.

This package expands the usethis package with the goal of helping automate the process of creating R packages for Bioconductor or making them Bioconductor-friendly.

Generate HTML or PDF reports to explore a set of regions such as the results from annotation-agnostic expression analysis of RNA-seq data at base-pair resolution performed by derfinder. You can also create reports for DESeq2 or edgeR results.

The qsvaR package contains functions for removing the effect of degration in rna-seq data from postmortem brain tissue. The package is equipped to help users generate principal components associated with degradation. The components can be used in differential expression analysis to remove the effects of degradation.

This package provides plotting functions for results from the derfinder package. This helps separate the graphical dependencies required for making these plots from the core functionality of derfinder.

This package provides functions for annotation-agnostic differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data. Two implementations of the DER Finder approach are included in this package: (1) single base-level F-statistics and (2) DER identification at the expressed regions-level. The DER Finder approach can also be used to identify differentially bounded ChIP-seq peaks.

This package provides an R interface to Megadepth by Christopher Wilks available at https://github.com/ChristopherWilks/megadepth. It is particularly useful for computing the coverage of a set of genomic regions across bigWig or BAM files. With this package, you can build base-pair coverage matrices for regions or annotations of your choice from BigWig files. Megadepth was used to create the raw files provided by https://bioconductor.org/packages/recount3.

Helper package for speeding up the derfinder package when using multiple cores. This package is particularly useful when using BiocParallel and it helps reduce the time spent loading the full derfinder package when running the F-statistics calculation in parallel.

Extends string parsing capabilities for genomic coordinates, supporting various formats including comma-separated numbers, space-delimited coordinates, and automatic detection of GRanges, GPos, and GInteractions objects.

Differential open reading frame (ORF) translation analysis framework for ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) with matched RNA-seq. Implements (i) Differential ORF Usage (DOU), a beta-binomial generalized linear model that models the expected proportion of Ribo-seq versus RNA-seq reads mapping to each ORF within a gene, and (ii) ORF-level Differential Translation Efficiency (DTE), a negative binomial GLM that capture changes in translation efficiency of individual ORFs across experimental conditions. Supports ORF-level read summarization for bulk and single-cell Ribo-seq.

NanoMethViz is a toolkit for visualising methylation data from Oxford Nanopore sequencing. It can be used to explore methylation patterns from reads derived from Oxford Nanopore direct DNA sequencing with methylation called by callers including nanopolish, f5c and megalodon. The plots in this package allow the visualisation of methylation profiles aggregated over experimental groups and across classes of genomic features.

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.

cytofQC is a package for initial cleaning of CyTOF data. It uses a semi-supervised approach for labeling cells with their most likely data type (bead, doublet, debris, dead) and the probability that they belong to each label type. This package does not remove data from the dataset, but provides labels and information to aid the data user in cleaning their data. Our algorithm is able to distinguish between doublets and large cells.

Inference of ligand-receptor (LR) interactions from bulk expression (transcriptomics/proteomics) data, or spatial transcriptomics. BulkSignalR bases its inferences on the LRdb database included in our other package, SingleCellSignalR available from Bioconductor. It relies on a statistical model that is specific to bulk data sets. Different visualization and data summary functions are proposed to help navigating prediction results.

The MsQuality provides functionality to calculate quality metrics for mass spectrometry-derived, spectral data at the per-sample level. MsQuality relies on the mzQC framework of quality metrics defined by the Human Proteom Organization-Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO-PSI). These metrics quantify the quality of spectral raw files using a controlled vocabulary. The package is especially addressed towards users that acquire mass spectrometry data on a large scale (e.g. data sets from clinical settings consisting of several thousands of samples). The MsQuality package allows to calculate low-level quality metrics that require minimum information on mass spectrometry data: retention time, m/z values, and associated intensities. MsQuality relies on the Spectra package, or alternatively the MsExperiment package, and its infrastructure to store spectral data. Additionally, MsQuality supports Chromatograms objects from the Chromatograms package for chromatographic quality metrics.

A differential abundance analysis for the comparison of two or more conditions. Useful for analyzing data from standard RNA-seq or meta-RNA-seq assays as well as selected and unselected values from in-vitro sequence selections. Uses a Dirichlet-multinomial model to infer abundance from counts, optimized for three or more experimental replicates. The method infers biological and sampling variation to calculate the expected false discovery rate, given the variation, based on a Wilcoxon Rank Sum test and Welch's t-test (via aldex.ttest), a Kruskal-Wallis test (via aldex.kw), a generalized linear model (via aldex.glm), or a correlation test (via aldex.corr). All tests report predicted p-values and posterior Benjamini-Hochberg corrected p-values. ALDEx2 also calculates expected standardized effect sizes for paired or unpaired study designs. ALDEx2 can now be used to estimate the effect of scale on the results and report on the scale-dependent robustness of results.

The package implements a method for normalising microarray intensities from single- and multiple-color arrays. It can also be used for data from other technologies, as long as they have similar format. The method uses a robust variant of the maximum-likelihood estimator for an additive-multiplicative error model and affine calibration. The model incorporates data calibration step (a.k.a. normalization), a model for the dependence of the variance on the mean intensity and a variance stabilizing data transformation. Differences between transformed intensities are analogous to "normalized log-ratios". However, in contrast to the latter, their variance is independent of the mean, and they are usually more sensitive and specific in detecting differential transcription.

Provides R bindings for HiSpa, a hierarchical Bayesian model for inferring three-dimensional chromatin structures from Hi-C contact matrices using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. The package implements a cluster-based hierarchical approach that efficiently handles large-scale Hi-C datasets. It uses Rcpp and RcppArmadillo for efficient C++ integration with the original HiSpa C++ implementation, enabling fast computation of chromatin structure inference through parallel MCMC sampling.

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.

Provides an interface to build a unified database of genomic annotations and their coordinates (gene, transcript and exon levels). It is aimed to be used when simple tab-delimited annotations (or simple GRanges objects) are required instead of the more complex annotation Bioconductor packages. Also useful when combinatorial annotation elements are reuired, such as RefSeq coordinates with Ensembl biotypes. Finally, it can download, construct and handle annotations with versioned genes and transcripts (where available, e.g. RefSeq and latest Ensembl). This is particularly useful in precision medicine applications where the latter must be reported.

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.

RNAshapeQC provides coverage-shape-based quality control (QC) metrics for mRNA-seq and total RNA-seq data. It supports per-gene pileup construction from BAM files as well as toy datasets for quick-start examples. The package implements protocol-specific metrics, including decay rate (DR), degradation score (DS), mean coverage depth (MCD), window coefficient of variation (wCV), area under the curve (AUC), and shape-based sample-level indices. RNAshapeQC also includes HPC-friendly functions for per-gene batch processing and cross-study pileup generation. This package enables interpretable, protocol-specific QC assessments for diverse RNA-seq workflows.

CPSM provides a comprehensive computational pipeline for predicting survival probability and risk groups in cancer patients. The package includes steps for data preprocessing, training/test split, and normalization. It enables feature selection using univariate survival analysis and computes a LASSO-based prognostic index (PI) score. CPSM supports the development of predictive models using various feature sets and offers a suite of visualization tools, including survival curves based on predicted probabilities, barplots for predicted mean and median survival times, KM plots overlaid with individual survival predictions, and nomograms for estimating 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year survival probabilities. This makes CPSM a versatile tool for survival analysis in cancer research.

Quantification and differential analysis of mass-spectrometry proteomics data, with probabilistic recovery of information from missing values. Avoids the need for imputation. Estimates the detection probability curve (DPC), which relates the probability of successful detection to the underlying log-intensity of each precursor ion, and uses it to incorporate missing values into protein quantification and into subsequent differential expression analyses. The package produces objects suitable for downstream analysis in limma. The package accepts precursor (or peptide) intensities including missing values and produces complete protein quantifications without the need for imputation. The uncertainty of the protein quantifications is propagated through to the limma analyses using variance modeling and precision weights, ensuring accurate error rate control. The analysis pipeline can alternatively work with PTM or protein level data. The package name "limpa" is an acronym for "Linear Models for Proteomics Data".

Bioconductor-native infrastructure for handling large nanoporetech modkit bedMethyl pileup files from ONT data using HDF5Array and DelayedArray.

recoup calculates and plots signal profiles created from short sequence reads derived from Next Generation Sequencing technologies. The profiles provided are either sumarized curve profiles or heatmap profiles. Currently, recoup supports genomic profile plots for reads derived from ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq experiments. The package uses ggplot2 and ComplexHeatmap graphics facilities for curve and heatmap coverage profiles respectively.

This package implements algorithms and data structures for performing gene expression signature (GES) searches, and subsequently interpreting the results functionally with specialized enrichment methods.