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SAFE is a resampling-based method for testing functional categories in gene expression experiments. SAFE can be applied to 2-sample and multi-class comparisons, or simple linear regressions. Other experimental designs can also be accommodated through user-defined functions.

The S4Vectors package defines the Vector and List virtual classes and a set of generic functions that extend the semantic of ordinary vectors and lists in R. Package developers can easily implement vector-like or list-like objects as concrete subclasses of Vector or List. In addition, a few low-level concrete subclasses of general interest (e.g. DataFrame, Rle, Factor, and Hits) are implemented in the S4Vectors package itself (many more are implemented in the IRanges package and in other Bioconductor infrastructure packages).

The S4Arrays package defines the Array virtual class to be extended by other S4 classes that wish to implement a container with an array-like semantic. It also provides: (1) low-level functionality meant to help the developer of such container to implement basic operations like display, subsetting, or coercion of their array-like objects to an ordinary matrix or array, and (2) a framework that facilitates block processing of array-like objects (typically on-disk objects).

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.

Rare Variant Sharing (RVS) implements tests of association and linkage between rare genetic variant genotypes and a dichotomous phenotype, e.g. a disease status, in family samples. The tests are based on probabilities of rare variant sharing by relatives under the null hypothesis of absence of linkage and association between the rare variants and the phenotype and apply to single variants or multiple variants in a region (e.g. gene-based test).

Creates a muti-graph web page which allows the interactive exploration of differential analysis tests. The graphical web interface presents results as a table which is integrated with five interactive graphs: MA-plot, volcano plot, box plot, lines plot and cluster heatmap. Graphical aspect and information represented in the graphs can be customized by means of user controls. Final graphics can be exported as PNG format.

This package implements the remove unwanted variation (RUV) methods of Risso et al. (2014) for the normalization of RNA-Seq read counts between samples.

RUVnormalize is meant to remove unwanted variation from gene expression data when the factor of interest is not defined, e.g., to clean up a dataset for general use or to do any kind of unsupervised analysis.

RUVcorr allows to apply global removal of unwanted variation (ridged version of RUV) to real and simulated gene expression data.

This package implements UbiBic algorithm in R. This biclustering algorithm for analysis of gene expression data was introduced by Zhenjia Wang et al. in 2016. It is currently considered the most promising biclustering method for identification of meaningful structures in complex and noisy data.

Mass cytometry enables the simultaneous measurement of dozens of protein markers at the single-cell level, producing high dimensional datasets that provide deep insights into cellular heterogeneity and function. However, these datasets often contain unwanted covariance introduced by technical variations, such as differences in cell size, staining efficiency, and instrument-specific artifacts, which can obscure biological signals and complicate downstream analysis. This package addresses this challenge by implementing a robust framework of linear models designed to identify and remove these sources of unwanted covariance. By systematically modeling and correcting for technical noise, the package enhances the quality and interpretability of mass cytometry data, enabling researchers to focus on biologically relevant signals.

This package provides a web interface to compute transcriptional regulatory modules with rTRM.

rTRM identifies transcriptional regulatory modules (TRMs) from protein-protein interaction networks.

Extensible framework for interacting with multiple genome browsers (currently UCSC built-in) and manipulating annotation tracks in various formats (currently GFF, BED, bedGraph, BED15, WIG, BigWig and 2bit built-in). The user may export/import tracks to/from the supported browsers, as well as query and modify the browser state, such as the current viewport.

R package for performing thermal proximity co-aggregation analysis with thermal proteome profiling datasets to analyse protein complex assembly and (differential) protein-protein interactions across conditions.

the RTopper package is designed to perform and integrate gene set enrichment results across multiple genomic platforms.

RTNsurvival integrates regulons inferred by the RTN package with survival data. For each regulon, a two-tailed GSEA framework computes a differential Enrichment Score (dES) at the individual-sample level. The resulting dES distribution across samples is then used to evaluate survival associations within the cohort. Two primary workflows are supported: (i) Cox proportional hazards models, in which regulon activities are treated as predictors of survival time, and (ii) Kaplan–Meier analyses assessing cohort stratification based on regulon activity. All graphical outputs are customizable according to user specifications.

RTNduals identifies co-regulatory loops between pairs of regulons inferred by the RTN package by evaluating their shared target genes. It infers dual regulons and tests whether regulator pairs exhibit cooperative or competitive influences on common targets.

A transcriptional regulatory network (TRN) consists of a collection of transcription factors (TFs) and the regulated target genes. TFs are regulators that recognize specific DNA sequences and guide the expression of the genome, either activating or repressing the expression the target genes. The set of genes controlled by the same TF forms a regulon. This package provides classes and methods for the reconstruction of TRNs and analysis of regulons.

Managing data from large scale projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for further analysis is an important and time consuming step for research projects. Several efforts, such as Firehose project, make TCGA pre-processed data publicly available via web services and data portals but it requires managing, downloading and preparing the data for following steps. We developed an open source and extensible R based data client for Firehose pre-processed data and demonstrated its use with sample case studies. Results showed that RTCGAToolbox could improve data management for researchers who are interested with TCGA data. In addition, it can be integrated with other analysis pipelines for following data analysis.

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal provides a platform for researchers to search, download, and analyze data sets generated by TCGA. It contains clinical information, genomic characterization data, and high level sequence analysis of the tumor genomes. The key is to understand genomics to improve cancer care. RTCGA package offers download and integration of the variety and volume of TCGA data using patient barcode key, what enables easier data possession. This may have an benefcial infuence on impact on development of science and improvement of patients' treatment. Furthermore, RTCGA package transforms TCGA data to tidy form which is convenient to use.

Import, analyze and visualize data from Roche(R) xCELLigence RTCA systems. The package imports real-time cell electrical impedance data into R. As an alternative to commercial software shipped along the system, the Bioconductor package RTCA provides several unique transformation (normalization) strategies and various visualization tools.

"Spaced Words Projection (SWeeP)" is a method for representing biological sequences using vectors preserving inter-sequence comparability.

RSVSim is a package for the simulation of deletions, insertions, inversion, tandem-duplications and translocations of various sizes in any genome available as FASTA-file or BSgenome data package. SV breakpoints can be placed uniformly accross the whole genome, with a bias towards repeat regions and regions of high homology (for hg19) or at user-supplied coordinates.

Alignment, quantification and analysis of RNA sequencing data (including both bulk RNA-seq and scRNA-seq) and DNA sequenicng data (including ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, WGS, WES etc). Includes functionality for read mapping, read counting, SNP calling, structural variant detection and gene fusion discovery. Can be applied to all major sequencing techologies and to both short and long sequence reads.

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

A programmatic interface to the Semantic MEDLINE database. It provides functions for searching the database for concepts and finding paths between concepts. Path searching can also be tailored to user specifications, such as placing restrictions on concept types and the type of link between concepts. It also provides functions for summarizing and visualizing those paths.

SCUDO (Signature-based Clustering for Diagnostic Purposes) is a rank-based method for the analysis of gene expression profiles for diagnostic and classification purposes. It is based on the identification of sample-specific gene signatures composed of the most up- and down-regulated genes for that sample. Starting from gene expression data, functions in this package identify sample-specific gene signatures and use them to build a graph of samples. In this graph samples are joined by edges if they have a similar expression profile, according to a pre-computed similarity matrix. The similarity between the expression profiles of two samples is computed using a method similar to GSEA. The graph of samples can then be used to perform community clustering or to perform supervised classification of samples in a testing set.

Links R to libsbml for SBML parsing, validating output, provides an S4 SBML DOM, converts SBML to R graph objects. Optionally links to the SBML ODE Solver Library (SOSLib) for simulating models.

This package provides an interface to the 'samtools', 'bcftools', and 'tabix' utilities for manipulating SAM (Sequence Alignment / Map), FASTA, binary variant call (BCF) and compressed indexed tab-delimited (tabix) files.

Reduce and visualize lists of Gene Ontology terms by identifying redudance based on semantic similarity.

The package is aimed at inference on the amount of agreement in two sorted lists using the Rank-Rank Hypergeometric Overlap test.

This package implements the QUBIC algorithm introduced by Li et al. for the qualitative biclustering with gene expression data.

Despite the recent advances of modern GWAS methods, it still remains an important problem of addressing calculation an effect size and corresponding p-value for the whole gene rather than for single variant. The R- package rqt offers gene-level GWAS meta-analysis. For more information, see: "Gene-set association tests for next-generation sequencing data" by Lee et al (2016), Bioinformatics, 32(17), i611-i619, <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw429>.

The rpx package implements an interface to proteomics data submitted to the ProteomeXchange consortium.

This package provides the headers and static library of Protocol buffers for other R packages to compile and link against.

Functions, workflow, and a Shiny application for visualizing sequence conservation and designing degenerate primers, probes, and (RT)-(q/d)PCR assays from a multiple DNA sequence alignment. The results can be presented in data frame format and visualized as dashboard-like plots. For more information, please see the package vignette.

Probabilistic analysis of probe reliability and differential gene expression on short oligonucleotide arrays.

Calculates the Reproducibility-Optimized Test Statistic (ROTS) for differential testing in omics data.

ROSeq - A rank based approach to modeling gene expression with filtered and normalized read count matrix. ROSeq takes filtered and normalized read matrix and cell-annotation/condition as input and determines the differentially expressed genes between the contrasting groups of single cells. One of the input parameters is the number of cores to be used.

Latent variable modeling with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) are powerful methods for visualization, regression, classification, and feature selection of omics data where the number of variables exceeds the number of samples and with multicollinearity among variables. Orthogonal Partial Least Squares (OPLS) enables to separately model the variation correlated (predictive) to the factor of interest and the uncorrelated (orthogonal) variation. While performing similarly to PLS, OPLS facilitates interpretation. Successful applications of these chemometrics techniques include spectroscopic data such as Raman spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS) in metabolomics and proteomics, but also transcriptomics data. In addition to scores, loadings and weights plots, the package provides metrics and graphics to determine the optimal number of components (e.g. with the R2 and Q2 coefficients), check the validity of the model by permutation testing, detect outliers, and perform feature selection (e.g. with Variable Importance in Projection or regression coefficients). The package can be accessed via a user interface on the Workflow4Metabolomics.org online resource for computational metabolomics (built upon the Galaxy environment).

Suite of tools for functional analysis.

The rols package is an interface to the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) to access and query hundred of ontolgies directly from R.

RolDE detects longitudinal differential expression between two conditions in noisy high-troughput data. Suitable even for data with a moderate amount of missing values.RolDE is a composite method, consisting of three independent modules with different approaches to detecting longitudinal differential expression. The combination of these diverse modules allows RolDE to robustly detect varying differences in longitudinal trends and expression levels in diverse data types and experimental settings.

The package analyzes the Curve ROC, identificates it among different types of Curve ROC and calculates the area under de curve through the method that is most accuracy. This package is able to standarizate proper and improper pAUC.

Provide utilities for ROC, with microarray focus.

This package implements a variety of functions useful for gene set analysis using rotations to approximate the null distribution. It contributes with the implementation of seven test statistic scores that can be used with different goals and interpretations. Several functions are available to complement the statistical results with graphical representations.

Identify preferential usage of APA sites, comparing two biological conditions, starting from known alternative sites and alignments obtained from standard RNA-seq experiments.

R/Bioconductor package for normalization, curve registration and inference in time course gene expression data.

RnBeads facilitates comprehensive analysis of various types of DNA methylation data at the genome scale.