VIRTUS

a specification for describing analysis workflows and tools that are portable and scalable across a variety of software and hardware environments, from workstations to cluster, cloud, and high performance computing (HPC) environments.

Estimate variance-mean dependence in count data from high-throughput sequencing assays and test for differential expression based on a model using the negative binomial distribution.

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.

Provides a streamlined workflow for clustering and visualizing gene expression patterns, particularly from time-series RNA-Seq and single-cell experiments. The package is designed to integrate seamlessly within the Bioconductor ecosystem by operating directly on standard data classes such as `SummarizedExperiment` and `SingleCellExperiment`. It implements common clustering algorithms (e.g., k-means, fuzzy c-means) and generates a suite of publication-ready visualizations to explore co-expressed gene modules. Functions are also included to facilitate the visualization of clustering results derived from other popular tools.

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a very powerful technique that has wide applicability in data science, bioinformatics, and further afield. It was initially developed to analyse large volumes of data in order to tease out the differences/relationships between the logical entities being analysed. It extracts the fundamental structure of the data without the need to build any model to represent it. This 'summary' of the data is arrived at through a process of reduction that can transform the large number of variables into a lesser number that are uncorrelated (i.e. the 'principal components'), while at the same time being capable of easy interpretation on the original data. PCAtools provides functions for data exploration via PCA, and allows the user to generate publication-ready figures. PCA is performed via BiocSingular - users can also identify optimal number of principal components via different metrics, such as elbow method and Horn's parallel analysis, which has relevance for data reduction in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) and high dimensional mass cytometry data.

Identifiers in the GTN correspond to training materials in various formats (markdown, slides, video). The users can apply learned concepts directly within the framework via galaxy workflows.