The aim of TCGAbiolinks is:

1. facilitate GDC open-access data retrieval;

2. prepare the data using the appropriate pre-processing strategies;

3. provide the means to carry out different standard analyses, and;

4. to easily reproduce earlier research results.

In more detail, the package provides multiple methods for analysis (e.g., differential expression analysis, identifying differentially methylated regions) and methods for visualization (e.g., survival plots, volcano plots, starburst plots) in order to easily develop complete analysis pipelines.

This package provides the GInteractions, InteractionSet and ContactMatrix objects and associated methods for storing and manipulating genomic interaction data from Hi-C and ChIA-PET experiments.

TFBSTools is a package for the analysis and manipulation of transcription factor binding sites. It includes matrices conversion between Position Frequency Matrix (PFM), Position Weight Matrix (PWM) and Information Content Matrix (ICM). It can also scan putative TFBS from sequence/alignment, query JASPAR database and provides a wrapper of de novo motif discovery software.

This package was derived from Rsymphony. The package provides an R interface to SYMPHONY, a linear programming solver written in C++. The main difference between this package and Rsymphony is that it includes the solver source code, while Rsymphony expects to find header and library files on the users' system. Thus the intention of lpsymphony is to provide an easy to install interface to SYMPHONY.

This package provides user interface and database connection code for annotation data packages using SQLite data storage.

This package provides functions to add metadata to ExperimentHub db and resource files to AWS S3 buckets.

Animalcules is an R package for utilizing up-to-date data analytics, visualization methods, and machine learning models to provide users an easy-to-use interactive microbiome analysis framework. It can be used as a standalone software package or users can explore their data with the accompanying interactive R Shiny application. Traditional microbiome analysis such as alpha/beta diversity and differential abundance analysis are enhanced, while new methods like biomarker identification are introduced by animalcules. Powerful interactive and dynamic figures generated by animalcules enable users to understand their data better and discover new insights.

ASEB is an R package to predict lysine sites that can be acetylated by a specific KAT (K-acetyl-transferases) family. Lysine acetylation is a well-studied posttranslational modification on kinds of proteins. About four thousand lysine acetylation sites and over 20 lysine KATs have been identified. However, which KAT is responsible for a given protein or lysine site acetylation is mostly unknown. In this package, we use a GSEA-like (Gene Set Enrichment Analysis) method to make predictions. GSEA method was developed and successfully used to detect coordinated expression changes and find the putative functions of the long non-coding RNAs.

Expression levels of mRNA molecules are regulated by different processes, comprising inhibition or activation by transcription factors and post-transcriptional degradation by microRNAs. birta (Bayesian Inference of Regulation of Transcriptional Activity) uses the regulatory networks of transcription factors and miRNAs together with mRNA and miRNA expression data to predict switches in regulatory activity between two conditions. A Bayesian network is used to model the regulatory structure and Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo is applied to sample the activity states.

This package allows importing most common specific structure (motif) types into R for use by functions provided by other Bioconductor motif-related packages. Motifs can be exported into most major motif formats from various classes as defined by other Bioconductor packages. A suite of motif and sequence manipulation and analysis functions are included, including enrichment, comparison, P-value calculation, shuffling, trimming, higher-order motifs, and others.

The anota2seq package provides analysis of translational efficiency and differential expression analysis for polysome-profiling and ribosome-profiling studies (two or more sample classes) quantified by RNA sequencing or DNA-microarray. Polysome-profiling and ribosome-profiling typically generate data for two RNA sources, translated mRNA and total mRNA. Analysis of differential expression is used to estimate changes within each RNA source. Analysis of translational efficiency aims to identify changes in translation efficiency leading to altered protein levels that are independent of total mRNA levels or buffering, a mechanism regulating translational efficiency so that protein levels remain constant despite fluctuating total mRNA levels.

This package contains the functions to find the gene expression modules that represent the drivers of Kauffman's attractor landscape. The modules are the core attractor pathways that discriminate between different cell types of groups of interest. Each pathway has a set of synexpression groups, which show transcriptionally-coordinated changes in gene expression.

This package provides a one-to-one mapping from gene to "best" probe set for four Affymetrix human gene expression microarrays: hgu95av2, hgu133a, hgu133plus2, and u133x3p. On Affymetrix gene expression microarrays, a single gene may be measured by multiple probe sets. This can present a mild conundrum when attempting to evaluate a gene "signature" that is defined by gene names rather than by specific probe sets. This package also includes the pre-calculated probe set quality scores that were used to define the mapping.

The package provides functionality that can be useful for the analysis of the high-density tiling microarray data (such as from Affymetrix genechips) or for measuring the transcript abundance and the architecture. The main functionalities of the package are:

1. the class segmentation for representing partitionings of a linear series of data;

2. the function segment for fitting piecewise constant models using a dynamic programming algorithm that is both fast and exact;

3. the function confint for calculating confidence intervals using the strucchange package;

4. the function plotAlongChrom for generating pretty plots;

5. the function normalizeByReference for probe-sequence dependent response adjustment from a (set of) reference hybridizations.

This package takes a list of p-values resulting from the simultaneous testing of many hypotheses and estimates their q-values and local false discovery rate (FDR) values. The q-value of a test measures the proportion of false positives incurred when that particular test is called significant. The local FDR measures the posterior probability the null hypothesis is true given the test's p-value. Various plots are automatically generated, allowing one to make sensible significance cut-offs. The software can be applied to problems in genomics, brain imaging, astrophysics, and data mining.

The polyester package simulates RNA-seq reads from differential expression experiments with replicates. The reads can then be aligned and used to perform comparisons of methods for differential expression.

BadRegionFinder is a package for identifying regions with a bad, acceptable and good coverage in sequence alignment data available as bam files. The whole genome may be considered as well as a set of target regions. Various visual and textual types of output are available.

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.

This package provides a computational method that infers copy number variations (CNV) in cancer scRNA-seq data and reconstructs the tumor phylogeny. It integrates signals from gene expression, allelic ratio, and population haplotype structures to accurately infer allele-specific CNVs in single cells and reconstruct their lineage relationship. It does not require tumor/normal-paired DNA or genotype data, but operates solely on the donor scRNA-data data (for example, 10x Cell Ranger output). It can be used to:

1. detect allele-specific copy number variations from single-cells

2. differentiate tumor versus normal cells in the tumor microenvironment

3. infer the clonal architecture and evolutionary history of profiled tumors

For details on the method see Gao et al in Nature Biotechnology 2022.

This package manages the installation of CMake for building Bioconductor packages. This avoids the need for end-users to manually install CMake on their system. No action is performed if a suitable version of CMake is already available.

This package provides a framework for processing and visualization of chromatographically separated and single-spectra mass spectral data. It imports from AIA/ANDI NetCDF, mzXML, mzData and mzML files. It preprocesses data for high-throughput, untargeted analyte profiling.

R-dsb improves protein expression analysis in droplet-based single-cell studies. The package specifically addresses noise in raw protein UMI counts from methods like CITE-seq. It identifies and removes two main sources of noise—protein-specific noise from unbound antibodies and droplet/cell-specific noise. The package is applicable to various methods, including CITE-seq, REAP-seq, ASAP-seq, TEA-seq, and Mission Bioplatform data. Check the vignette for tutorials on integrating dsb with Seurat and Bioconductor, and using dsb in Python.

Wrapping an array-like object (typically an on-disk object) in a DelayedArray object allows one to perform common array operations on it without loading the object in memory. In order to reduce memory usage and optimize performance, operations on the object are either delayed or executed using a block processing mechanism. Note that this also works on in-memory array-like objects like DataFrame objects (typically with Rle columns), Matrix objects, and ordinary arrays and data frames.

This package provides full genome sequences for Danio rerio (Zebrafish) as provided by UCSC (danRer11, May 2017) and stored in Biostrings objects.