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Volcano plots represent a useful way to visualise the results of differential expression analyses. Here, we present a highly-configurable function that produces publication-ready volcano plots. EnhancedVolcano will attempt to fit as many point labels in the plot window as possible, thus avoiding 'clogging' up the plot with labels that could not otherwise have been read. Other functionality allows the user to identify up to 4 different types of attributes in the same plot space via colour, shape, size, and shade parameter configurations.

Vizualize, analyze and explore networks using Cytoscape via R. Anything you can do using the graphical user interface of Cytoscape, you can now do with a single RCy3 function.

This package implements a metabolic network analysis pipeline to identify an active metabolic module based on high throughput data. The pipeline takes as input transcriptional and/or metabolic data and finds a metabolic subnetwork (module) most regulated between the two conditions of interest. The package further provides functions for module post-processing, annotation and visualization.

GladiaTOX R package is an open-source, flexible solution to high-content screening data processing and reporting in biomedical research. GladiaTOX takes advantage of the tcpl core functionalities and provides a number of extensions: it provides a web-service solution to fetch raw data; it computes severity scores and exports ToxPi formatted files; furthermore it contains a suite of functionalities to generate pdf reports for quality control and data processing.

iSEEu (the iSEE universe) contains diverse functionality to extend the usage of the iSEE package, including additional classes for the panels, or modes allowing easy configuration of iSEE applications.

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).

Defines a S4 class that is based on SingleCellExperiment. In addition to the usual gene layer the object can also store data for immune genes such as HLAs, Igs and KIRs at allele and functional level. The package is part of a workflow named single-cell ImmunoGenomic Diversity (scIGD), that firstly incorporates allele-aware quantification data for immune genes. This new data can then be used with the here implemented data structure and functionalities for further data handling and data analysis.

This package provides functionality to run a number of tasks in the differential expression analysis workflow. This encompasses the most widely used steps, from running various enrichment analysis tools with a unified interface to creating plots and beautifying table components linking to external websites and databases. This streamlines the generation of comprehensive analysis reports.

flowcatchR is a set of tools to analyze in vivo microscopy imaging data, focused on tracking flowing blood cells. It guides the steps from segmentation to calculation of features, filtering out particles not of interest, providing also a set of utilities to help checking the quality of the performed operations (e.g. how good the segmentation was). It allows investigating the issue of tracking flowing cells such as in blood vessels, to categorize the particles in flowing, rolling and adherent. This classification is applied in the study of phenomena such as hemostasis and study of thrombosis development. Moreover, flowcatchR presents an integrated workflow solution, based on the integration with a Shiny App and Jupyter notebooks, which is delivered alongside the package, and can enable fully reproducible bioimage analysis in the R environment.

This package provides functions for an Interactive Differential Expression AnaLysis of RNA-sequencing datasets, to extract quickly and effectively information downstream the step of differential expression. A Shiny application encapsulates the whole package. Support for reproducibility of the whole analysis is provided by means of a template report which gets automatically compiled and can be stored/shared.

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.

CCSO is an educational ontology acting as a data model for concepts and entities within an academic setting, enabling also the annotation of potentially available resources. The ontology aims to conceptualize educational entities within Curriculum and Syllabus with appropriate coverage and quality, in order to support rich services on top for improving curriculum management and automatically enabling syllabus semantic processes. (from homepage)

Intuitive framework for identifying spatially variable genes (SVGs) and differential spatial variable pattern (DSP) between conditions via edgeR, a popular method for performing differential expression analyses. Based on pre-annotated spatial clusters as summarized spatial information, DESpace models gene expression using a negative binomial (NB), via edgeR, with spatial clusters as covariates. SVGs are then identified by testing the significance of spatial clusters. For multi-sample, multi-condition datasets, we again fit a NB model via edgeR, incorporating spatial clusters, conditions and their interactions as covariates. DSP genes-representing differences in spatial gene expression patterns across experimental conditions-are identified by testing the interaction between spatial clusters and conditions.

Provides tools for large-scale protein motif analysis and visualization in R. PMScanR facilitates the identification of motifs using external tools like PROSITE's ps_scan (handling necessary file downloads and execution) and enables downstream analysis of results. Key features include parsing scan outputs, converting formats (e.g., to GFF-like structures), generating motif occurrence matrices, and creating informative visualizations such as heatmaps, sequence logos (via seqLogo/ggseqlogo). The package also offers an optional Shiny-based graphical user interface for interactive analysis, aiming to streamline the process of exploring motif patterns across multiple protein sequences.

The package provides different distances measurements to calculate the difference between genesets. Based on these scores the genesets are clustered and visualized as graph. This is all presented in an interactive Shiny application for easy usage.

Biocaml aims to be a high-performance user-friendly library for Bioinformatics.

A tool to estimate the cell composition of DNA methylation whole blood sample measured on any platform technology (microarray and sequencing).

Tool designed to provide a simple way of standardising molecules as a prelude to e.g. molecular modelling exercises.

Foundation model jointly trained on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data, enabling unified representation learning across cellular and tissue spatial contexts for cell type prediction, spatial domain inference, and cross-modal integration (theislab, bioRxiv 2024, 164+ stars)

100M-parameter foundation model pretrained on 50M+ human single-cell transcriptomes covering ~20,000 genes, achieving SOTA on gene expression enhancement, drug response and perturbation prediction (Nature Methods 2024)

RETROFIT is a Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization framework to decompose cell type mixtures in ST data without using external single-cell expression references. RETROFIT outperforms existing reference-based methods in estimating cell type proportions and reconstructing gene expressions in simulations with varying spot size and sample heterogeneity, irrespective of the quality or availability of the single-cell reference. RETROFIT recapitulates known cell-type localization patterns in a Slide-seq dataset of mouse cerebellum without using any single-cell data.

Manages the installation of CMake for building Bioconductor packages. This avoids the need for end-users to manually install CMake on their system. No action is performed if a suitable version of CMake is already available.

The crisprVerse is a modular ecosystem of R packages developed for the design and manipulation of CRISPR guide RNAs (gRNAs). All packages share a common language and design principles. This package is designed to make it easy to install and load the crisprVerse packages in a single step. To learn more about the crisprVerse, visit <https://www.github.com/crisprVerse>.

A crystallography domain ontology based on EMMO and the CIF core dictionary. It is implemented as a formal language. (from https://nfdi4cat.org/services/ontologie-sammlung/)

Modular package for generation of sets of ranges representing the null hypothesis. These can take the form of bootstrap samples of ranges (using the block bootstrap framework of Bickel et al 2010), or sets of control ranges that are matched across one or more covariates. nullranges is designed to be inter-operable with other packages for analysis of genomic overlap enrichment, including the plyranges Bioconductor package.

A Cheminformatics Modeling Laboratory for Fitting and Assessing Machine Learning Models in R.

This package contains the function to find marker genes for image-based spatial transcriptomics data. There are functions to create spatial vectors from the cell and transcript coordiantes, which are passed as inputs to find marker genes. Marker genes are detected for every cluster by two approaches. The first approach is by permtuation testing, which is implmented in parallel for finding marker genes for one sample study. The other approach is to build a linear model for every gene. This approach can account for multiple samples and backgound noise.

This package serves as an upstream pipeline for pre-processing sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics data. Functions includes FASTQ trimming, BAM file reformatting, index building, spatial barcode detection, demultiplexing, gene count matrix generation with UMI deduplication, QC, and revelant visualization. Config is an essential input for most of the functions which aims to improve reproducibility.

A vocabulary describing licenses for data and code

Implements exact and approximate methods for singular value decomposition and principal components analysis, in a framework that allows them to be easily switched within Bioconductor packages or workflows. Where possible, parallelization is achieved using the BiocParallel framework.

BEER implements a Bayesian model for analyzing phage-immunoprecipitation sequencing (PhIP-seq) data. Given a PhIPData object, BEER returns posterior probabilities of enriched antibody responses, point estimates for the relative fold-change in comparison to negative control samples, and more. Additionally, BEER provides a convenient implementation for using edgeR to identify enriched antibody responses.

Using single-cell RNA-Seq expression to visualize CNV in cells.

An ontology with predicates to formalization of the concept of mentions. The mentions may be either explicit (e.g. as when well stated into an article "Dr. Johnson's groundbreaking research on climate change") or implicit (e.g. such as discussing "seminal studies in the field"). MiTO contains the object property mito:mentions and its inverse mito:isMentionedBy.

A controlled vocabulary to support the study of transcription in the developing human brain

This package allows to estimate missing values in DNA methylation data. methyLImp method is based on linear regression since methylation levels show a high degree of inter-sample correlation. Implementation is parallelised over chromosomes since probes on different chromosomes are usually independent. Mini-batch approach to reduce the runtime in case of large number of samples is available.

A Shiny application for visualization, exploration, comparison, and filtering of CRISPR screens analyzed with MAGeCK RRA or MLE. Features include interactive plots with on-click labeling, full customization of plot aesthetics, data upload and/or download, and much more. Quickly and easily explore your CRISPR screen results and generate publication-quality figures in seconds.

Autonomous algorithm discovery combining evolutionary search with peer-review reward models, achieving best-known performance on circle packing problems

hoodscanR is an user-friendly R package providing functions to assist cellular neighborhood analysis of any spatial transcriptomics data with single-cell resolution. All functions in the package are built based on the SpatialExperiment object, allowing integration into various spatial transcriptomics-related packages from Bioconductor. The package can result in cell-level neighborhood annotation output, along with funtions to perform neighborhood colocalization analysis and neighborhood-based cell clustering.

'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).

Use BridgeDb functions and load identifier mapping databases in R. It uses GitHub, Zenodo, and Figshare if you use this package to download identifier mappings files.

Use this database to browse the CMECS classification and to get definitions for individual CMECS Units. This database contains the units that were published in the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard.

The package offers statistical tests based on the 2-Wasserstein distance for detecting and characterizing differences between two distributions given in the form of samples. Functions for calculating the 2-Wasserstein distance and testing for differential distributions are provided, as well as a specifically tailored test for differential expression in single-cell RNA sequencing data.

Sort genomic files according to a specified order.

Graph neural network operating entirely at the atomic level for protein-ligand conformational ensemble prediction and docking, generating diverse solutions through rapid stochastic denoising to model conformational heterogeneity (Baker Lab, bioRxiv 2025)

Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology through single-cell transcriptomics (ICML 2024)

This package primarily identifies variants in mitochondrial genomes from BAM alignment files. It filters these variants to remove RNA editing events then estimates their evolutionary relationship (i.e. their phylogenetic tree) and groups single cells into clones. It also visualizes the mutations and providing additional genomic context.

Use this package to interface with the WikiPathways API. It provides programmatic access to WikiPathways content in multiple data and image formats, including official monthly release files and convenient GMT read/write functions.

Family of codon-resolution language models trained on 130 million protein-coding sequences from over 20,000 species, enabling cross-species gene expression prediction and codon-level functional genomics (2025)

ChemFormula provides a class for working with chemical formulas. It allows parsing chemical formulas, calculating formula weights, and generating formatted output strings (e.g. in HTML, LaTeX, or Unicode).