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Many tools for data analysis are not available in R, but are present in public repositories like conda. The Herper package provides a comprehensive set of functions to interact with the conda package managament system. With Herper users can install, manage and run conda packages from the comfort of their R session. Herper also provides an ad-hoc approach to handling external system requirements for R packages. For people developing packages with python conda dependencies we recommend using basilisk (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/basilisk.html) to internally support these system requirments pre-hoc.

HERON is a software package for analyzing peptide binding array data. In addition to identifying significant binding probes, HERON also provides functions for finding epitopes (string of consecutive peptides within a protein). HERON also calculates significance on the probe, epitope, and protein level by employing meta p-value methods. HERON is designed for obtaining calls on the sample level and calculates fractions of hits for different conditions.

Provides classes and functions for quality control, filtering, normalization and differential expression analysis of pre-processed `RNA-seq` data. Data can be imported from `SummarizedExperiment` as well as `matrix` objects and can be annotated from `BioMart`. Filtering for genes without too low expression or containing required annotations, as well as filtering for samples with sufficient correlation to other samples or total number of reads is supported. The standard normalization methods including cpm, rpkm and tpm can be used, and 'DESeq2` as well as voom differential expression analyses are available.

This package fits heterogeneous error models for analysis of microarray data

The package contains a modular pipeline for analysis of HELP microarray data, and includes graphical and mathematical tools with more general applications.

Translates bedtools command-line invocations to R code calling functions from the Bioconductor *Ranges infrastructure. This is intended to educate novice Bioconductor users and to compare the syntax and semantics of the two frameworks.

Display a rectangular heatmap (intensity plot) of a data matrix. By default, both samples (columns) and features (row) of the matrix are sorted according to a hierarchical clustering, and the corresponding dendrogram is plotted. Optionally, panels with additional information about samples and features can be added to the plot.

This package provides functions for plotting heatmaps of genome-wide data across genomic intervals, such as ChIP-seq signals at peaks or across promoters. Many functions are also provided for investigating sequence features.

The hdxmsqc package enables us to analyse and visualise the quality of HDX-MS experiments. Either as a final quality check before downstream analysis and publication or as part of a interative procedure to determine the quality of the data. The package builds on the QFeatures and Spectra packages to integrate with other mass-spectrometry data.

Characterization of intra-individual variability using physiologically relevant measurements provides important insights into fundamental biological questions ranging from cell type identity to tumor development. For each individual, the data measurements can be written as a matrix with the different subsamples of the individual recorded in the columns and the different phenotypic units recorded in the rows. Datasets of this type are called high-dimensional transposable data. The HDTD package provides functions for conducting statistical inference for the mean relationship between the row and column variables and for the covariance structure within and between the row and column variables.

The HDF5Array package is an HDF5 backend for DelayedArray objects. It implements the HDF5Array, H5SparseMatrix, H5ADMatrix, and TENxMatrix classes, 4 convenient and memory-efficient array-like containers for representing and manipulating either: (1) a conventional (a.k.a. dense) HDF5 dataset, (2) an HDF5 sparse matrix (stored in CSR/CSC/Yale format), (3) the central matrix of an h5ad file (or any matrix in the /layers group), or (4) a 10x Genomics sparse matrix. All these containers are DelayedArray extensions and thus support all operations (delayed or block-processed) supported by DelayedArray objects.

An implementation, which takes input data and makes it available for proper batch effect removal by ComBat or Limma. The implementation appropriately handles missing values by dissecting the input matrix into smaller matrices with sufficient data to feed the ComBat or limma algorithm. The adjusted data is returned to the user as a rebuild matrix. The implementation is meant to make as much data available as possible with minimal data loss.

Harman is a PCA and constrained optimisation based technique that maximises the removal of batch effects from datasets, with the constraint that the probability of overcorrection (i.e. removing genuine biological signal along with batch noise) is kept to a fraction which is set by the end-user.

A package to identify very short IBD segments in large sequencing data by FABIA biclustering. Two haplotypes are identical by descent (IBD) if they share a segment that both inherited from a common ancestor. Current IBD methods reliably detect long IBD segments because many minor alleles in the segment are concordant between the two haplotypes. However, many cohort studies contain unrelated individuals which share only short IBD segments. This package provides software to identify short IBD segments in sequencing data. Knowledge of short IBD segments are relevant for phasing of genotyping data, association studies, and for population genetics, where they shed light on the evolutionary history of humans. The package supports VCF formats, is based on sparse matrix operations, and provides visualization of haplotype clusters in different formats.

hammers is a utilities suite for scRNA-seq data analysis compatible with both Seurat and SingleCellExperiment. It provides simple tools to address tasks such as retrieving aggregate gene statistics, finding and removing rare genes, performing representation analysis, computing the center of mass for the expression of a gene of interest in low-dimensional space, and calculating silhouette and cluster-normalized silhouette.

This package contains functions to interact with tally data from NGS experiments that is stored in HDF5 files.

The main function in the h5mread package is h5mread(), which allows reading arbitrary data from an HDF5 dataset into R, similarly to what the h5read() function from the rhdf5 package does. In the case of h5mread(), the implementation has been optimized to make it as fast and memory-efficient as possible.

Client for the gypsum REST API (https://gypsum.artifactdb.com), a cloud-based file store in the ArtifactDB ecosystem. This package provides functions for uploads, downloads, and various adminstrative and management tasks. Check out the documentation at https://github.com/ArtifactDB/gypsum-worker for more details.

The development of high-throughput sequencing led to increased use of co-expression analysis to go beyong single feature (i.e. gene) focus. We propose GWENA (Gene Whole co-Expression Network Analysis) , a tool designed to perform gene co-expression network analysis and explore the results in a single pipeline. It includes functional enrichment of modules of co-expressed genes, phenotypcal association, topological analysis and comparison of networks configuration between conditions.

Represent and model data in the EMBL-EBI GWAS catalog.

This package is built to perform GWAS analysis using Bayesian techniques. Currently, GWAS.BAYES has functionality for the implementation of BICOSS (Williams, J., Ferreira, M. A., and Ji, T. (2022). BICOSS: Bayesian iterative conditional stochastic search for GWAS. BMC Bioinformatics), BGWAS (Williams, J., Xu, S., Ferreira, M. A.. (2023) "BGWAS: Bayesian variable selection in linear mixed models with nonlocal priors for genome-wide association studies." BMC Bioinformatics), and GINA. All methods currently are for the analysis of Gaussian phenotypes The research related to this package was supported in part by National Science Foundation awards DMS 1853549, DMS 1853556, and DMS 2054173.

Genomic data analyses requires integrated visualization of known genomic information and new experimental data. Gviz uses the biomaRt and the rtracklayer packages to perform live annotation queries to Ensembl and UCSC and translates this to e.g. gene/transcript structures in viewports of the grid graphics package. This results in genomic information plotted together with your data.

Tools to compute and visualize overlaps between gene sets or genomic regions. Venn diagrams with proportional areas are provided, while UpSet plots are recommended for larger numbers of sets. The package supports GRanges and GRangesList inputs, and integrates with analysis workflows for ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and other genomic interval data. It generates clean, interpretable, and publication-ready figures.

The package is designed for visualization of RNA-related genomic features with respect to the landmarks of RNA transcripts, i.e., transcription starting site, start codon, stop codon and transcription ending site.

The package implements GUIDE-seq and PEtag-seq analysis workflow including functions for filtering UMI and reads with low coverage, obtaining unique insertion sites (proxy of cleavage sites), estimating the locations of the insertion sites, aka, peaks, merging estimated insertion sites from plus and minus strand, and performing off target search of the extended regions around insertion sites with mismatches and indels.

Genome level Trellis graph visualizes genomic data conditioned by genomic categories (e.g. chromosomes). For each genomic category, multiple dimensional data which are represented as tracks describe different features from different aspects. This package provides high flexibility to arrange genomic categories and to add self-defined graphics in the plot.

Gene Set Variation Analysis (GSVA) is a non-parametric, unsupervised method for estimating variation of gene set enrichment through the samples of a expression data set. GSVA performs a change in coordinate systems, transforming the data from a gene by sample matrix to a gene-set by sample matrix, thereby allowing the evaluation of pathway enrichment for each sample. This new matrix of GSVA enrichment scores facilitates applying standard analytical methods like functional enrichment, survival analysis, clustering, CNV-pathway analysis or cross-tissue pathway analysis, in a pathway-centric manner.

The GSRI package estimates the number of differentially expressed genes in gene sets, utilizing the concept of the Gene Set Regulation Index (GSRI).

A package for gene set analysis based on the variability of expressions as well as a method to detect Alternative Splicing Events . It implements DIfferential RAnk Conservation (DIRAC) and gene set Expression Variation Analysis (EVA) methods. For detecting Differentially Spliced genes, it provides an implementation of the Spliced-EVA (SEVA).

A multi-objective optimization algorithm for disease sub-type discovery based on a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm. The 'Galgo' framework combines the advantages of clustering algorithms for grouping heterogeneous 'omics' data and the searching properties of genetic algorithms for feature selection. The algorithm search for the optimal number of clusters determination considering the features that maximize the survival difference between sub-types while keeping cluster consistency high.

Biological molecules in a living organism seldom work individually. They usually interact each other in a cooperative way. Biological process is too complicated to understand without considering such interactions. Thus, network-based procedures can be seen as powerful methods for studying complex process. However, many methods are devised for analyzing individual genes. It is said that techniques based on biological networks such as gene co-expression are more precise ways to represent information than those using lists of genes only. This package is aimed to integrate the gene expression and biological network. A biological network is constructed from gene expression data and it is used for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis.

Gene Set Enrichment Analysis is a very powerful and interesting computational method that allows an easy correlation between differential expressed genes and biological processes. Unfortunately, although it was designed to help researchers to interpret gene expression data it can generate huge amounts of results whose biological meaning can be difficult to interpret. Many available tools rely on the hierarchically structured Gene Ontology (GO) classification to reduce reundandcy in the results. However, due to the popularity of GSEA many more gene set collections, such as those in the Molecular Signatures Database are emerging. Since these collections are not organized as those in GO, their usage for GSEA do not always give a straightforward answer or, in other words, getting all the meaninful information can be challenging with the currently available tools. For these reasons, GSEAmining was born to be an easy tool to create reproducible reports to help researchers make biological sense of GSEA outputs. Given the results of GSEA, GSEAmining clusters the different gene sets collections based on the presence of the same genes in the leadind edge (core) subset. Leading edge subsets are those genes that contribute most to the enrichment score of each collection of genes or gene sets. For this reason, gene sets that participate in similar biological processes should share genes in common and in turn cluster together. After that, GSEAmining is able to identify and represent for each cluster: - The most enriched terms in the names of gene sets (as wordclouds) - The most enriched genes in the leading edge subsets (as bar plots). In each case, positive and negative enrichments are shown in different colors so it is easy to distinguish biological processes or genes that may be of interest in that particular study.

Models and methods for fitting linear models to gene expression data, together with tools for computing and using various regression diagnostics.

The GSEABenchmarkeR package implements an extendable framework for reproducible evaluation of set- and network-based methods for enrichment analysis of gene expression data. This includes support for the efficient execution of these methods on comprehensive real data compendia (microarray and RNA-seq) using parallel computation on standard workstations and institutional computer grids. Methods can then be assessed with respect to runtime, statistical significance, and relevance of the results for the phenotypes investigated.

This package provides classes and methods to support Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA).

Package for the analysis of pooled genetic screens (e.g. CRISPR-KO). The analysis of such screens is based on the comparison of gRNA abundances before and after a cell proliferation phase. The gscreend packages takes gRNA counts as input and allows detection of genes whose knockout decreases or increases cell proliferation.

GSCA takes as input several lists of activated and repressed genes. GSCA then searches through a compendium of publicly available gene expression profiles for biological contexts that are enriched with a specified pattern of gene expression. GSCA provides both traditional R functions and interactive, user-friendly user interface.

Gene set analysis using specific alternative hypotheses. Tests for differential expression, scale and net correlation structure.

GSALightning provides a fast implementation of permutation-based gene set analysis for two-sample problem. This package is particularly useful when testing simultaneously a large number of gene sets, or when a large number of permutations is necessary for more accurate p-values estimation.

GSABenchmark is a package designed for benchmarking scRNA-seq gene set analysis (scGSA) methods. It provides both traditional and novel benchmark metrics, as well as visualization tools. Currently, GSABenchmark supports 17 scGSA methods.

A pipeline for the analysis of GRO-seq data.

Functions for calculating and visualizing growth-rate inhibition (GR) metrics.

Identify regions of ChIP experiments with high signal in the input, that lead to spurious peaks during peak calling. Remove reads aligning to these regions prior to peak calling, for cleaner ChIP analysis.

The package offers four network inference statistical models using Dynamic Bayesian Networks and Gibbs Variable Selection: a linear interaction model, two linear interaction models with added experimental noise (Gaussian and Student distributed) for the case where replicates are available and a non-linear interaction model.

Graph objects from pathway topology derived from KEGG, Panther, PathBank, PharmGKB, Reactome SMPDB and WikiPathways databases.

GraphExperiment provides users and developers with an S4 class that extends `SingleCellExperiment` by offering infrastructure to store and retrieve networks (`igraph` objects) representing how features are associated with each other. The class was designed to store networks inferred from high-dimensional quantitative data, including gene coexpression networks (GCNs), gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and co-abundance networks (from proteomics and metabolomics), as well as networks inferred from other types of data (e.g., protein-protein interactions).

Functions and data used in Balasubramanian, et al. (2004)

Graph alignment is an extension package for the R programming environment which provides functions for finding an alignment between two networks based on link and node similarity scores. (J. Berg and M. Laessig, "Cross-species analysis of biological networks by Bayesian alignment", PNAS 103 (29), 10967-10972 (2006))

A package that implements some simple graph handling capabilities.

This package enables regression and classification on high-dimensional data with different relative strengths of penalization for different feature groups, such as different assays or omic types. The optimal relative strengths are chosen adaptively. Optimisation is performed using a variational Bayes approach.