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zitools allows for zero inflated count data analysis by either using down-weighting of excess zeros or by replacing an appropriate proportion of excess zeros with NA. Through overloading frequently used statistical functions (such as mean, median, standard deviation), plotting functions (such as boxplots or heatmap) or differential abundance tests, it allows a wide range of downstream analyses for zero-inflated data in a less biased manner. This becomes applicable in the context of microbiome analyses, where the data is often overdispersed and zero-inflated, therefore making data analysis extremly challenging.

Suffix Array Kernel Smoothing (see https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/35/20/3944/5418797), or SArKS, identifies sequence motifs whose presence correlates with numeric scores (such as differential expression statistics) assigned to the sequences (such as gene promoters). SArKS smooths over sequence similarity, quantified by location within a suffix array based on the full set of input sequences. A second round of smoothing over spatial proximity within sequences reveals multi-motif domains. Discovered motifs can then be merged or extended based on adjacency within MMDs. False positive rates are estimated and controlled by permutation testing.

Headers and some wrapper functions from the SeqAn C++ library for ease of usage in R.

This package provides an R wrapper for the popular Bowtie2 sequencing read aligner, optimized to run on NVIDIA graphics cards. It includes wrapper functions that enable both genome indexing and alignment to the generated indexes, ensuring high performance and ease of use within the R environment.

PAA imports single color (protein) microarray data that has been saved in gpr file format - esp. ProtoArray data. After preprocessing (background correction, batch filtering, normalization) univariate feature preselection is performed (e.g., using the "minimum M statistic" approach - hereinafter referred to as "mMs"). Subsequently, a multivariate feature selection is conducted to discover biomarker candidates. Therefore, either a frequency-based backwards elimination aproach or ensemble feature selection can be used. PAA provides a complete toolbox of analysis tools including several different plots for results examination and evaluation.

This package offers an interface to NDEx servers, e.g. the public server at http://ndexbio.org/. It can retrieve and save networks via the API. Networks are offered as RCX object and as igraph representation.

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has made it possible to profile gene expression in tissues at high resolution. An important preprocessing step prior to performing downstream analyses is to identify and remove cells with poor or degraded sample quality using quality control (QC) metrics. Two widely used QC metrics to identify a ‘low-quality’ cell are (i) if the cell includes a high proportion of reads that map to mitochondrial DNA encoded genes (mtDNA) and (ii) if a small number of genes are detected. miQC is data-driven QC metric that jointly models both the proportion of reads mapping to mtDNA and the number of detected genes with mixture models in a probabilistic framework to predict the low-quality cells in a given dataset.

MetaProViz can analyse standard metabolomics and exometabolomics data (CoRe). It performs pre-processing including feature filtering, missing value imputation, normalisation and outlier detection. It performs functional analysis including differential metabolite analysis (DMA), clustering based on regulatory rules (MCA) and contains different visualisation methods to extract biological interpretable graphs and saves them in a publication ready format.

The Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS) is a widely used toolkit for identifying transcript factor binding sites. This package is an R wrapper of the lastest MACS3.

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

GeneStructureTools can be used to create in silico alternative splicing events, and analyse potential effects this has on functional gene products.

GEMINI uses log-fold changes to model sample-dependent and independent effects, and uses a variational Bayes approach to infer these effects. The inferred effects are used to score and identify genetic interactions, such as lethality and recovery. More details can be found in Zamanighomi et al. 2019 (in press).

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.

An implementation of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard E691 for interlaboratory testing procedures, designed for cross-platform genomic measurements. Given three (3) or more genomic platforms or laboratory protocols, this package provides interlaboratory testing procedures giving per-locus comparisons for sensitivity and precision between platforms.

Coordinated Gene Activity in Pattern Sets (CoGAPS) implements a Bayesian MCMC matrix factorization algorithm, GAPS, and links it to gene set statistic methods to infer biological process activity. It can be used to perform sparse matrix factorization on any data, and when this data represents biomolecules, to do gene set analysis.

Predicts branchpoint probability for sites in intronic branchpoint windows. Queries can be supplied as intronic regions; or to evaluate the effects of mutations, SNPs.

The project is intended to support the use of sequins (synthetic sequencing spike-in controls) owned and made available by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. The goal is to provide a standard open source library for quantitative analysis, modelling and visualization of spike-in controls.