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CIGAR stands for Concise Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report. CIGAR strings are found in the BAM files produced by most aligners and in the AIRR-formatted output produced by IgBLAST. The cigarillo package provides functions to parse and inspect CIGAR strings, trim them, turn them into ranges of positions relative to the "query space" or "reference space", and project positions or sequences from one space to the other. Note that these operations are low-level operations that the user rarely needs to perform directly. More typically, they are performed behind the scene by higher-level functionality implemented in other packages like Bioconductor packages GenomicAlignments and igblastr.

The ChromHeatMap package can be used to plot genome-wide data (e.g. expression, CGH, SNP) along each strand of a given chromosome as a heat map. The generated heat map can be used to interactively identify probes and genes of interest.

Tools for helping process short read data for chipseq experiments.

This package implements functions to retrieve the nearest genes around the peak, annotate genomic region of the peak, statstical methods for estimate the significance of overlap among ChIP peak data sets, and incorporate GEO database for user to compare the own dataset with those deposited in database. The comparison can be used to infer cooperative regulation and thus can be used to generate hypotheses. Several visualization functions are implemented to summarize the coverage of the peak experiment, average profile and heatmap of peaks binding to TSS regions, genomic annotation, distance to TSS, and overlap of peaks or genes.

chimeraviz manages data from fusion gene finders and provides useful visualization tools.

A pipeline for analysing Capture Hi-C data.

ChemmineR is a cheminformatics package for analyzing drug-like small molecule data in R. Its latest version contains functions for efficient processing of large numbers of molecules, physicochemical/structural property predictions, structural similarity searching, classification and clustering of compound libraries with a wide spectrum of algorithms. In addition, it offers visualization functions for compound clustering results and chemical structures.

ChemmineOB provides an R interface to a subset of cheminformatics functionalities implemented by the OpelBabel C++ project. OpenBabel is an open source cheminformatics toolbox that includes utilities for structure format interconversions, descriptor calculations, compound similarity searching and more. ChemineOB aims to make a subset of these utilities available from within R. For non-developers, ChemineOB is primarily intended to be used from ChemmineR as an add-on package rather than used directly.

The cellxgene data portal (https://cellxgene.cziscience.com/) provides a graphical user interface to collections of single-cell sequence data processed in standard ways to 'count matrix' summaries. The cellxgenedp package provides an alternative, R-based inteface, allowind data discovery, viewing, and downloading.

CellTrails is an unsupervised algorithm for the de novo chronological ordering, visualization and analysis of single-cell expression data. CellTrails makes use of a geometrically motivated concept of lower-dimensional manifold learning, which exhibits a multitude of virtues that counteract intrinsic noise of single cell data caused by drop-outs, technical variance, and redundancy of predictive variables. CellTrails enables the reconstruction of branching trajectories and provides an intuitive graphical representation of expression patterns along all branches simultaneously. It allows the user to define and infer the expression dynamics of individual and multiple pathways towards distinct phenotypes.

Infers cell type-specific expression based on co-expression similarity with known cell type marker genes. Can make accurate predictions using publicly available expression data, even when a cell type has not been isolated before.

The package CellBarcode performs Cellular DNA Barcode analysis. It can handle all kinds of DNA barcodes, as long as the barcode is within a single sequencing read and has a pattern that can be matched by a regular expression. \code{CellBarcode} can handle barcodes with flexible lengths, with or without UMI (unique molecular identifier). This tool also can be used for pre-processing some amplicon data such as CRISPR gRNA screening, immune repertoire sequencing, and metagenome data.

This package provides the visualization of bayesian network inferred from gene expression data. The networks are based on enrichment analysis results inferred from packages including clusterProfiler and ReactomePA. The networks between pathways and genes inside the pathways can be inferred and visualized.

This package contains functions that allow analysing and comparing omic data across various cancers/cancer subgroups easily. So far, it is compatible with RNA-seq, microRNA-seq, microarray and methylation datasets that are stored on cbioportal.org.

A collection of tools for performing category (gene set enrichment) analysis.

Tools for finding bumps in genomic data

A collection of tools for analyzing and visualizing whole-genome methylation data from sequencing. This includes whole-genome bisulfite sequencing and Oxford nanopore data.

A set of tools to forge BSgenome data packages. Supersedes the old seed-based tools from the BSgenome software package. This package allows the user to create a BSgenome data package in one function call, simplifying the old seed-based process.

Infrastructure shared by all the Biostrings-based genome data packages.

Tools to normalize (several) Hi-C data from replicates.

The biovizBase package is designed to provide a set of utilities, color schemes and conventions for genomic data. It serves as the base for various high-level packages for biological data visualization. This saves development effort and encourages consistency.

Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or sets of sequences.

the R package BioNAR, developed to step by step analysis of PPI network. The aim is to quantify and rank each protein’s simultaneous impact into multiple complexes based on network topology and clustering. Package also enables estimating of co-occurrence of diseases across the network and specific clusters pointing towards shared/common mechanisms.

In recent years a wealth of biological data has become available in public data repositories. Easy access to these valuable data resources and firm integration with data analysis is needed for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis. biomaRt provides an interface to a growing collection of databases implementing the BioMart software suite (<https://www.ensembl.org/info/data/biomart/index.html>). The package enables retrieval of large amounts of data in a uniform way without the need to know the underlying database schemas or write complex SQL queries. The most prominent examples of BioMart databases are maintained by Ensembl, which provides biomaRt users direct access to a diverse set of data and enables a wide range of powerful online queries from gene annotation to database mining.

A collection of software tools for calculating distance measures.

Infrastructure to support 'views' used to classify Bioconductor packages. 'biocViews' are directed acyclic graphs of terms from a controlled vocabulary. There are three major classifications, corresponding to 'software', 'annotation', and 'experiment data' packages.

This package provides repository information for the appropriate version of Bioconductor.

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 standard formatting styles for Bioconductor PDF and HTML documents. Package vignettes illustrate use and functionality.

This package provides interfaces to selected sklearn elements, and demonstrates fault tolerant use of python modules requiring extensive iteration.

BiocSet displays different biological sets in a triple tibble format. These three tibbles are `element`, `set`, and `elementset`. The user has the abilty to activate one of these three tibbles to perform common functions from the dplyr package. Mapping functionality and accessing web references for elements/sets are also available in BiocSet.

This package provides an interactive Shiny dashboard for Bioconductor package maintainers. It visualizes various package statuses, metadata, and development metrics, offering insights into package health and activity. This tool aims to support maintainers of multiple packages by filtering packages via maintainer email.

This package allows interactive viewing of package maintainer information. The Bioconductor Package Maintainer Application sends yearly verification emails to accept Bioconductor policies; this application also depicts maintainer status on opting in and if the email is deemed valid.

The `BiocIO` package contains high-level abstract classes and generics used by developers to build IO funcionality within the Bioconductor suite of packages. Implements `import()` and `export()` standard generics for importing and exporting biological data formats. `import()` supports whole-file as well as chunk-wise iterative import. The `import()` interface optionally provides a standard mechanism for 'lazy' access via `filter()` (on row or element-like components of the file resource), `select()` (on column-like components of the file resource) and `collect()`. The `import()` interface optionally provides transparent access to remote (e.g. via https) as well as local access. Developers can register a file extension, e.g., `.loom` for dispatch from character-based URIs to specific `import()` / `export()` methods based on classes representing file types, e.g., `LoomFile()`.

A package that allows interactive exploration of AnnotationHub and ExperimentHub resources. It uses DT / DataTable to display resources for multiple organisms. It provides template code for reproducibility and for downloading resources via the indicated Hub package.

Use hail via basilisk when appropriate, or via reticulate. This package can be used in terra.bio to interact with UK Biobank resources processed by hail.is.

This package provides examples and code that make use of the different graph related packages produced by Bioconductor.

The package defines many S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor.

This package creates a persistent on-disk cache of files that the user can add, update, and retrieve. It is useful for managing resources (such as custom Txdb objects) that are costly or difficult to create, web resources, and data files used across sessions.

FHIR R4 bundles in JSON format are derived from https://synthea.mitre.org/downloads. Transformation inspired by a kaggle notebook published by Dr Alexander Scarlat, https://www.kaggle.com/code/drscarlat/fhir-starter-parse-healthcare-bundles-into-tables. This is a very limited illustration of some basic parsing and reorganization processes. Additional tooling will be required to move beyond the Synthea data illustrations.

BiocCheck guides maintainers through Bioconductor best practicies. It runs Bioconductor-specific package checks by searching through package code, examples, and vignettes. Maintainers are required to address all errors, warnings, and most notes produced.

The package provides utility functions related to package development. These include functions that replace slots, and selectors for show methods. It aims to coalesce the various helper functions often re-used throughout the Bioconductor ecosystem.

Represents the OpenAPI v2 Azul API as an R object for performing requests. The infrastructure uses the AnVIL and rapiclient packages. Users can connect to either the AnVIL or Human Cell Atlas Data Explorers.

Parse GFF and GTF files using C++ classes. The package also provides utilities to read and write GFF3 files. The GFF (General Feature Format) format is a tab-delimited file format for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. GFF files are often used to describe the features of genomes.

Functions that are needed by many other packages or which replace R functions.

bioassayR is a computational tool that enables simultaneous analysis of thousands of bioassay experiments performed over a diverse set of compounds and biological targets. Unique features include support for large-scale cross-target analyses of both public and custom bioassays, generation of high throughput screening fingerprints (HTSFPs), and an optional preloaded database that provides access to a substantial portion of publicly available bioactivity data.

Precise knowledge on the binding sites of an RNA-binding protein (RBP) is key to understand (post-) transcriptional regulatory processes. Here we present a workflow that describes how exact binding sites can be defined from iCLIP data. The package provides functions for binding site definition and result visualization. For details please see the vignette.

Starting from a microbiome dataset (16S or WMS with absolute count values) it is possible to perform several analysis to assess the performances of many differential abundance detection methods. A basic and standardized version of the main differential abundance analysis methods is supplied but the user can also add his method to the benchmark. The analyses focus on 4 main aspects: i) the goodness of fit of each method's distributional assumptions on the observed count data, ii) the ability to control the false discovery rate, iii) the within and between method concordances, iv) the truthfulness of the findings if any apriori knowledge is given. Several graphical functions are available for result visualization.

BatchSVG is a method to identify batch-biased spatially variable genes (SVGs) in spatial transcriptomics data. The batch variable can be defined as sample, donor sex, or other batch effects of interest. The BatchSVG method is based on the binomial deviance model (Townes et al, 2019).

The Bandle package enables the analysis and visualisation of differential localisation experiments using mass-spectrometry data. Experimental methods supported include dynamic LOPIT-DC, hyperLOPIT, Dynamic Organellar Maps, Dynamic PCP. It provides Bioconductor infrastructure to analyse these data.