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TADCompare is an R package designed to identify and characterize differential Topologically Associated Domains (TADs) between multiple Hi-C contact matrices. It contains functions for finding differential TADs between two datasets, finding differential TADs over time and identifying consensus TADs across multiple matrices. It takes all of the main types of HiC input and returns simple, comprehensive, easy to analyze results.

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).

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.

This package aims to quantify and remove putative double strand DNA from a strand-specific RNA sample. There are also options and methods to plot the positive/negative proportions of all sliding windows, which allow users to have an idea of how much the sample was contaminated and the appropriate threshold to be used for filtering.

StatescopeR is an R wrapper around Statescope, a computational framework designed to discover cell states from cell type-specific gene expression profiles inferred from bulk RNA profiles.

standR is an user-friendly R package providing functions to assist conducting good-practice analysis of Nanostring's GeoMX DSP data. All functions in the package are built based on the SpatialExperiment object, allowing integration into various spatial transcriptomics-related packages from Bioconductor. standR allows data inspection, quality control, normalization, batch correction and evaluation with informative visualizations.

STADyUM is a package with functionality for analyzing nascent RNA read counts to infer transcription rates. This includes utilities for processing experimental nascent RNA read counts as well as for simulating PRO-seq data. Rates such as initiation, pause release and landing pad occupancy are estimated from either synthetic or experimental data. There are also options for varying pause sites and including steric hindrance of initiation in the model.

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 spqn package implements spatial quantile normalization (SpQN). This method was developed to remove a mean-correlation relationship in correlation matrices built from gene expression data. It can serve as pre-processing step prior to a co-expression analysis.

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.

SpNeigh provides methods for neighborhood-aware analysis of spatial transcriptomics data. It supports boundary detection, spatial weighting (centroid- and boundary-based), spatially informed differential expression using spline-based models, and spatial enrichment analysis via the Spatial Enrichment Index (SEI). Designed for compatibility with Seurat objects, SpatialExperiment objects and spatial data frames, SpNeigh enables interpretable, publication-ready analysis of spatial gene expression patterns.

Estimate networks from the precision matrix of compositional microbial abundance data.

From the perspective of metabolites as the continuation of the central dogma of biology, metabolomics provides the closest link to many phenotypes of interest. This makes metabolomics research promising in teasing apart the complexities of living systems. However, due to experimental reasons, the data includes non-biological variation which limits quality and reproducibility, especially if the data is obtained from several batches. The batchCorr package reduces unwanted variation by way of between-batch alignment, within-batch drift correction and between-batch normalization using batch-specific quality control samples and long-term reference QC samples. Please see the associated article for more thorough descriptions of algorithms.

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.

This package provides an R wrapper of the popular bowtie2 sequencing reads aligner and AdapterRemoval, a convenient tool for rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging. The package contains wrapper functions that allow for genome indexing and alignment to those indexes. The package also allows for the creation of .bam files via Rsamtools.

This package provides a framework for the quantification and analysis of Short Reads. It covers a complete workflow starting from raw sequence reads, over creation of alignments and quality control plots, to the quantification of genomic regions of interest. Read alignments are either generated through Rbowtie (data from DNA/ChIP/ATAC/Bis-seq experiments) or Rhisat2 (data from RNA-seq experiments that require spliced alignments), or can be provided in the form of bam files.

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.

The tidySummarizedExperiment package provides a set of tools for creating and manipulating tidy data representations of SummarizedExperiment objects. SummarizedExperiment is a widely used data structure in bioinformatics for storing high-throughput genomic data, such as gene expression or DNA sequencing data. The tidySummarizedExperiment package introduces a tidy framework for working with SummarizedExperiment objects. It allows users to convert their data into a tidy format, where each observation is a row and each variable is a column. This tidy representation simplifies data manipulation, integration with other tidyverse packages, and enables seamless integration with the broader ecosystem of tidy tools for data analysis.

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.

implements a MsBackend for the Spectra package using Thermo Fisher Scientific's NewRawFileReader .Net libraries. The package is generalizing the functionality introduced by the rawrr package Methods defined in this package are supposed to extend the Spectra Bioconductor package.

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.

Provides visualization functionality for untargeted LC-MS metabolomics research. Includes quality control visualizations, feature-wise visualizations and results visualizations.

This package wraps the functionality of the Thermo Fisher Scientic RawFileReader .NET 8.0 assembly. Within the R environment, spectra and chromatograms are represented by S3 objects. The package provides basic functions to download and install the required third-party libraries. The package is developed, tested, and used at the Functional Genomics Center Zurich, Switzerland.

CompoundDb provides functionality to create and use (chemical) compound annotation databases from a variety of different sources such as LipidMaps, HMDB, ChEBI or MassBank. The database format allows to store in addition MS/MS spectra along with compound information. The package provides also a backend for Bioconductor's Spectra package and allows thus to match experimetal MS/MS spectra against MS/MS spectra in the database. Databases can be stored in SQLite format and are thus portable.

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend supporting import and handling of MS/MS spectra from NIST MSP Format (msp) files. Import of data from files with different MSP *flavours* is supported. Objects from this package add support for MSP files to Bioconductor's Spectra package. This package is thus not supposed to be used without the Spectra package that provides a complete infrastructure for MS data handling.

MsCoreUtils defines low-level functions for mass spectrometry data and is independent of any high-level data structures. These functions include mass spectra processing functions (noise estimation, smoothing, binning, baseline estimation), quantitative aggregation functions (median polish, robust summarisation, ...), missing data imputation, data normalisation (quantiles, vsn, ...), misc helper functions, that are used across high-level data structure within the R for Mass Spectrometry packages.

Calculate distances, build phylogenetic trees or perform hierarchical clustering between the samples of a VCF or FASTA file. Functions are implemented in Java-11 and called via rJava. Parallel implementation that operates directly on the VCF or FASTA file for fast execution.

Provides tools for simulating copy-number alteration (CNA) profiles, applying a non-decimated Haar wavelet transform to genomic signals, and extracting wavelet-derived features for use in supervised learning. Multiple machine learning methods including lasso and elastic-net regularisation, random forest, partial least squares, neural networks and k-nearest neighbours are implemented to train predictive models from genomic feature vectors. The workflow enables end-to-end analysis from CNA simulation to feature extraction and classification.

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.

A comprehensive package for visualizing multi-set intersections and extracting detailed subset information. VennDetail generates high-resolution visualizations including traditional Venn diagrams, Venn-pie plots, and UpSet-style plots. It provides functions to extract and combine subset details with user datasets in various formats. The package is particularly useful for bioinformatics applications but can be used for any multi-set analysis.

VCFArray extends the DelayedArray to represent VCF data entries as array-like objects with on-disk / remote VCF file as backend. Data entries from VCF files, including info fields, FORMAT fields, and the fixed columns (REF, ALT, QUAL, FILTER) could be converted into VCFArray instances with different dimensions.

VariantExperiment is a Bioconductor package for saving data in VCF/GDS format into RangedSummarizedExperiment object. The high-throughput genetic/genomic data are saved in GDSArray objects. The annotation data for features/samples are saved in DelayedDataFrame format with mono-dimensional GDSArray in each column. The on-disk representation of both assay data and annotation data achieves on-disk reading and processing and saves memory space significantly. The interface of RangedSummarizedExperiment data format enables easy and common manipulations for high-throughput genetic/genomic data with common SummarizedExperiment metaphor in R and Bioconductor.

Various mRNA sequencing library preparation methods generate sequencing reads specifically from the transcript ends. Analyses that focus on quantification of isoform usage from such data can be aided by using truncated versions of transcriptome annotations, both at the alignment or pseudo-alignment stage, as well as in downstream analysis. This package implements some convenience methods for readily generating such truncated annotations and their corresponding sequences.

The `TrIdent` R package automates the analysis of transductomics data by detecting, classifying, and characterizing read coverage patterns associated with potential transduction events. Transductomics is a DNA sequencing-based method for the detection and characterization of transduction events in pure cultures and complex communities. Transductomics relies on mapping sequencing reads from a viral-like particle (VLP)-fraction of a sample to contigs assembled from the metagenome (whole-community) of the same sample. Reads from bacterial DNA carried by VLPs will map back to the bacterial contigs of origin creating read coverage patterns indicative of ongoing transduction.

The package contains functions to infer and visualize cell cycle process using Single Cell RNASeq data. It exploits the idea of transfer learning, projecting new data to the previous learned biologically interpretable space. We provide a pre-learned cell cycle space, which could be used to infer cell cycle time of human and mouse single cell samples. In addition, we also offer functions to visualize cell cycle time on different embeddings and functions to build new reference.

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.

transmogR provides the tools needed to crate a new reference genome or reference transcriptome, using a set of variants. Variants can be any combination of SNPs, Insertions and Deletions. The intended use-case is to enable creation of variant-modified reference transcriptomes for incorporation into transcriptomic pseudo-alignment workflows, such as salmon.

Variance-stabilizing transformations help with the analysis of heteroskedastic data (i.e., data where the variance is not constant, like count data). This package provide two types of variance stabilizing transformations: (1) methods based on the delta method (e.g., 'acosh', 'log(x+1)'), (2) model residual based (Pearson and randomized quantile residuals).

TOP constructs a transferable model across gene expression platforms for prospective experiments. Such a transferable model can be trained to make predictions on independent validation data with an accuracy that is similar to a re-substituted model. The TOP procedure also has the flexibility to be adapted to suit the most common clinical response variables, including linear response, binomial and Cox PH models.

The tidySummarizedExperiment package provides a set of tools for creating and manipulating tidy data representations of SummarizedExperiment objects. SummarizedExperiment is a widely used data structure in bioinformatics for storing high-throughput genomic data, such as gene expression or DNA sequencing data. The tidySummarizedExperiment package introduces a tidy framework for working with SummarizedExperiment objects. It allows users to convert their data into a tidy format, where each observation is a row and each variable is a column. This tidy representation simplifies data manipulation, integration with other tidyverse packages, and enables seamless integration with the broader ecosystem of tidy tools for data analysis.

Provides customized print methods for 'SummarizedExperiment' objects to enhance readability and usability within a tidy workflow. It offers consistent, tidyverse-aligned console displays, including alternative tibble abstractions for large genomic data to improve discoverability and interpretation. The package also includes unified, contextual messaging utilities intended for the 'tidyomics' ecosystem.

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.

This package performs a Gene Set Analysis with the approach adopted by PADOG on the genes that are reported as translationally regulated (ie. exhibit a significant change in TE) by the DeltaTE package. It can be used on its own to see the impact of translation regulation on gene sets, but it is also integrated as an additional analysis method within ReactomeGSA, where results are further contextualised in terms of pathways and directionality of the change.

TENET identifies key transcription factors (TFs) and regulatory elements (REs) linked to a specific cell type by finding significantly correlated differences in gene expression and RE DNA methylation between case and control input datasets, and identifying the top genes by number of significant RE DNA methylation site links. It also includes many tools for visualization and analysis of the results, including plots displaying and comparing methylation and expression data and methylation site link counts, survival analysis, TF motif searching in the vicinity of linked RE DNA methylation sites, custom TAD and peak overlap analysis, and UCSC Genome Browser track file generation. A utility function is also provided to download methylation, expression, and patient survival data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for use in TENET or other analyses.

TEKRABber is made to provide a user-friendly pipeline for comparing orthologs and transposable elements (TEs) between two species. It considers the orthology confidence between two species from BioMart to normalize expression counts and detect differentially expressed orthologs/TEs. Then it provides one to one correlation analysis for desired orthologs and TEs. There is also an app function to have a first insight on the result. Users can prepare orthologs/TEs RNA-seq expression data by their own preference to run TEKRABber following the data structure mentioned in the vignettes.

This is an advanced version of TDbasedUFE, which is a comprehensive package to perform Tensor decomposition based unsupervised feature extraction. In contrast to TDbasedUFE which can perform simple the feature selection and the multiomics analyses, this package can perform more complicated and advanced features, but they are not so popularly required. Only users who require more specific features can make use of its functionality.

Gene signatures of TB progression, TB disease, and other TB disease states have been validated and published previously. This package aggregates known signatures and provides computational tools to enlist their usage on other datasets. The TBSignatureProfiler makes it easy to profile RNA-Seq data using these signatures and includes common signature profiling tools including ASSIGN, GSVA, and ssGSEA. Original models for some gene signatures are also available. A shiny app provides some functionality alongside for detailed command line accessibility.

TaxSEA is an R package for Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis, which utilises a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test analyses to investigate differential abundance analysis output for whether there are alternations in a-priori defined sets of taxa from public databases (BugSigDB, MiMeDB, GutMGene, mBodyMap, BacDive and GMRepoV2) and collated from the literature. TaxSEA takes as input a list of taxonomic identifiers (e.g. species names, NCBI IDs etc.) and a rank (E.g. fold change, correlation coefficient). TaxSEA be applied to any microbiota taxonomic profiling technology (array-based, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, shotgun metagenomics & metatranscriptomics etc.) and enables researchers to rapidly contextualize their findings within the broader literature to accelerate interpretation of results.

Implement the BETA algorithm for infering direct target genes from DNA-binding and perturbation expression data Wang et al. (2013) <doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.150>. Extend the algorithm to predict the combined function of two DNA-binding elements from comprable binding and expression data.

Offers functions for plotting split (or implicit) networks (unrooted, undirected) and explicit networks (rooted, directed) with reticulations extending. 'ggtree' and using functions from 'ape' and 'phangorn'. It extends the 'ggtree' package [@Yu2017] to allow the visualization of phylogenetic networks using the 'ggplot2' syntax. It offers an alternative to the plot functions already available in 'ape' Paradis and Schliep (2019) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty633> and 'phangorn' Schliep (2011) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq706>.