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The Livestock Product Trait Ontology (LPT) is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.

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.

Tool to build force field input files for molecular simulation.

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.

GFF and GTF file manipulation and interconversion.

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.

Baidu's open-source reproduction of AlphaFold3 in PaddlePaddle, providing pretrained weights and inference pipelines for unified biomolecular structure prediction across proteins, nucleic acids, ligands, ions, and post-translational modifications within the PaddleHelix biocomputing platform (Baidu, bioRxiv 2024)

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.

Google DeepMind's diffusion-based ensemble weather forecasting model at 0.25° resolution, outperforming ECMWF ENS on 97.2% of targets up to 15 days ahead, with open-source code and weights (Nature 2024)

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.

EPOS-DCAT-AP is an extension of the DCAT Application Profile for Research Infrastructures in Environmental and the solid-Earth domains.

Google Colab-based no-code toolbox democratizing deep learning in microscopy for biologists without programming experience, enabling AI-powered image segmentation, denoising, super-resolution, and object tracking across diverse imaging modalities (Henriques Lab, 640+ stars)

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.

Allen Institute for AI's global geospatial foundation model for satellite imagery analysis, enabling large-scale mapping of buildings, wind turbines, trees, and land cover from Sentinel-2 data with open-source weights and inference tools (2024)

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.

First agentic framework for weather science, pairing an LLM with ZephyrusWorld (a code-execution environment exposing WeatherBench 2 data, geolocation, forecasting, simulation, and climatology tools) and ZephyrusBench (2,230 Q&A pairs across 49 weather-science tasks); outperforms text-only baselines by up to 44.2 percentage points (UC San Diego Rose-STL-Lab, 99+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

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.

Unified ML/DL framework for drug discovery workflows, integrating RDKit, DeepChem, and scikit-learn with SHAP explainability

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.

Andrej Karpathy's autonomous LLM research framework: AI agent runs overnight experiments on a real training setup, auto-editing code→5min training→evaluation in a loop, ~100 experiments per night on a single GPU

Toolkit for linearizing academic PDFs into LLM-ready text with high accuracy and structure preservation, optimized for scientific literature extraction

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.

End-to-end semi-automated scientific discovery system that designs, iterates, and analyzes code-based experiments via LLM-as-a-mutator over scientific articles and code examples; auto-creates, runs, and debugs experiment code in containers and writes meta-analysis reports (339+ stars, Apache 2.0)

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".

Provides functions for counting reads from high-throughput sequencing screen data (e.g., CRISPR, shRNA) to quantify barcode abundance. Currently supports single barcodes in single- or paired-end data, and combinatorial barcodes in paired-end data.

Large-scale benchmark suite for protein fitness prediction and design, aggregating 200+ deep mutational scanning assays and clinical variant datasets across diverse protein families and taxa, with standardized zero-shot and supervised leaderboards for variant effect prediction, mutation effect prediction, and protein language model evaluation (OATML & Marks Lab, NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight, Datasets & Benchmarks)

Automated code generation from machine learning research papers into runnable implementations (4.5K+ stars, 2025)

Low-cost, modular self-driving laboratory platform democratizing autonomous chemical experimentation with open control software, device CAD/PCB files, and example optimization campaigns (Noël Research Group, University of Amsterdam, Apache 2.0, 2026)

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.

AlphaFold fine-tuned with flow matching for generating protein conformational ensembles, covering both experimental PDB states and molecular dynamics ensembles at physiological temperatures; includes ESMFlow variant (MIT, 526+ stars, 2024)

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

omicsViewer visualizes ExpressionSet (or SummarizedExperiment) in an interactive way. The omicsViewer has a separate back- and front-end. In the back-end, users need to prepare an ExpressionSet that contains all the necessary information for the downstream data interpretation. Some extra requirements on the headers of phenotype data or feature data are imposed so that the provided information can be clearly recognized by the front-end, at the same time, keep a minimum modification on the existing ExpressionSet object. The pure dependency on R/Bioconductor guarantees maximum flexibility in the statistical analysis in the back-end. Once the ExpressionSet is prepared, it can be visualized using the front-end, implemented by shiny and plotly. Both features and samples could be selected from (data) tables or graphs (scatter plot/heatmap). Different types of analyses, such as enrichment analysis (using Bioconductor package fgsea or fisher's exact test) and STRING network analysis, will be performed on the fly and the results are visualized simultaneously. When a subset of samples and a phenotype variable is selected, a significance test on means (t-test or ranked based test; when phenotype variable is quantitative) or test of independence (chi-square or fisher’s exact test; when phenotype data is categorical) will be performed to test the association between the phenotype of interest with the selected samples. Additionally, other analyses can be easily added as extra shiny modules. Therefore, omicsViewer will greatly facilitate data exploration, many different hypotheses can be explored in a short time without the need for knowledge of R. In addition, the resulting data could be easily shared using a shiny server. Otherwise, a standalone version of omicsViewer together with designated omics data could be easily created by integrating it with portable R, which can be shared with collaborators or submitted as supplementary data together with a manuscript.