This package provides a framework for deconvolution, alignment and postprocessing of 1-dimensional (1d) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, resulting in a data matrix of aligned signal integrals. The deconvolution part uses the algorithm described in Koh et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2009.09.003>. The alignment part is based on functions from the speaq package, described in Beirnaert et al. (2018) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006018> and Vu et al. (2011) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-405>. A detailed description and evaluation of an early version of the package, MetaboDecon1D v0.2.2', can be found in Haeckl et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/metabo11070452>.

To assess a summary survival curve from survival probabilities and number of at-risk patients collected at various points in time in various studies, and to test the between-strata heterogeneity.

An interactive application to visualise meta-analysis data as a physical weighing machine. The interface is based on the Shiny web application framework, though can be run locally and with the user's own data.

High-throughput, flexible and reproducible extraction of data from figures in primary research papers. metaDigitise() can extract data and / or automatically calculate summary statistics for users from box plots, bar plots (e.g., mean and errors), scatter plots and histograms.

This package implements a method to rapidly assess cell type identity using both functional and random gene sets and it allows users to quantify cell type replicability across datasets using neighbor voting. MetaNeighbor works on the basis that cells of the same type should have more similar gene expression profiles than cells of different types.

This package provides a comprehensive range of facilities to perform umbrella reviews with stratification of the evidence in R. The package accomplishes this aim by building on three core functions that: (i) automatically perform all required calculations in an umbrella review (including but not limited to meta-analyses), (ii) stratify evidence according to various classification criteria, and (iii) generate a visual representation of the results. Note that if you are not familiar with R, the core features of this package are available from a web browser (<https://www.metaumbrella.org/>).

Metadynamics is a state of the art biomolecular simulation technique. Plumed Tribello, G.A. et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.09.018> program makes it possible to perform metadynamics using various simulation codes. The results of metadynamics done in Plumed can be analyzed by metadynminer'. The package metadynminer reads 1D and 2D metadynamics hills files from Plumed package. It uses a fast algorithm by Hosek, P. and Spiwok, V. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2015.08.037> to calculate a free energy surface from hills. Minima can be located and plotted on the free energy surface. Transition states can be analyzed by Nudged Elastic Band method by Henkelman, G. and Jonsson, H. (2000) <doi:10.1063/1.1323224>. Free energy surfaces, minima and transition paths can be plotted to produce publication quality images.

If results from a meta-GWAS are used for validation in one of the cohorts that was included in the meta-analysis, this will yield biased (i.e. too optimistic) results. The validation cohort needs to be independent from the meta-Genome-Wide-Association-Study (meta-GWAS) results. MetaSubtract will subtract the results of the respective cohort from the meta-GWAS results analytically without having to redo the meta-GWAS analysis using the leave-one-out methodology. It can handle different meta-analyses methods and takes into account if single or double genomic control correction was applied to the original meta-analysis. It can also handle different meta-analysis methods. It can be used for whole GWAS, but also for a limited set of genetic markers. See for application: Nolte I.M. et al. (2017); <doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.50>.

MetagenomeSeq is designed to determine features (be it OTU, species, etc.) that are differentially abundant between two or more groups of multiple samples. This package is designed to address the effects of both normalization and under-sampling of microbial communities on disease association detection and the testing of feature correlations.

Visualize confounder control in meta-analysis. metaconfoundr is an approach to evaluating bias in studies used in meta-analyses based on the causal inference framework. Study groups create a causal diagram displaying their assumptions about the scientific question. From this, they develop a list of important confounders'. Then, they evaluate whether studies controlled for these variables well. metaconfoundr is a toolkit to facilitate this process and visualize the results as heat maps, traffic light plots, and more.

Extends the base classes and methods of caret package for integration of base learners. The user can input the number of different base learners, and specify the final learner, along with the train-validation-test data partition split ratio. The predictions on the unseen new data is the resultant of the ensemble meta-learning <https://machinelearningmastery.com/stacking-ensemble-machine-learning-with-python/> of the heterogeneous learners aimed to reduce the generalization error in the predictive models. It significantly lowers the barrier for the practitioners to apply heterogeneous ensemble learning techniques in an amateur fashion to their everyday predictive problems.

An approach to identifies metabolic biomarker signature for metabolic data by discovering predictive metabolite for predicting survival and classifying patients into risk groups. Classifiers are constructed as a linear combination of predictive/important metabolites, prognostic factors and treatment effects if necessary. Several methods were implemented to reduce the metabolomics matrix such as the principle component analysis of Wold Svante et al. (1987) <doi:10.1016/0169-7439(87)80084-9> , the LASSO method by Robert Tibshirani (1998) <doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970228)16:4%3C385::AID-SIM380%3E3.0.CO;2-3>, the elastic net approach by Hui Zou and Trevor Hastie (2005) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2005.00503.x>. Sensitivity analysis on the quantile used for the classification can also be accessed to check the deviation of the classification group based on the quantile specified. Large scale cross validation can be performed in order to investigate the mostly selected predictive metabolites and for internal validation. During the evaluation process, validation is accessed using the hazard ratios (HR) distribution of the test set and inference is mainly based on resampling and permutations technique.

Fits probabilistic principal components analysis, probabilistic principal components and covariates analysis and mixtures of probabilistic principal components models to metabolomic spectral data.

Implement meta-analyses for simultaneously estimating individual means with shrinkage, isotonic regression and pretests. Include our original implementation of the isotonic regression via the pool-adjacent-violators algorithm (PAVA) algorithm. For the pretest estimator, the confidence interval for individual means are provided. Methodologies were published in Taketomi et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/axioms10040267>, Taketomi et al. (2022) <doi:10.3390/a15010026>, Taketomi et al. (2023-) (under review).

Metadynamics is a state of the art biomolecular simulation technique. Plumed Tribello, G.A. et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.09.018> program makes it possible to perform metadynamics using various simulation codes. The results of metadynamics done in Plumed can be analyzed by metadynminer'. The package metadynminer reads 1D and 2D metadynamics hills files from Plumed package. As an addendum, metadynaminer3d is used to visualize 3D hills. It uses a fast algorithm by Hosek, P. and Spiwok, V. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2015.08.037> to calculate a free energy surface from hills. Minima can be located and plotted on the free energy surface. Free energy surfaces and minima can be plotted to produce publication quality images.

Create an interactive table of descriptive statistics in HTML. This table is typically used for exploratory analysis in a clinical study (referred to as Table 1').

This package detects naive associations between omics features and metadata in cross-sectional data-sets using non-parametric tests. In a second step, confounding effects between metadata associated to the same omics feature are detected and labeled using nested post-hoc model comparison tests. The generated output can be graphically summarized using the built-in plotting function.

MetaboCoreUtils defines metabolomics-related core functionality provided as low-level functions to allow a data structure-independent usage across various R packages. This includes functions to calculate between ion (adduct) and compound mass-to-charge ratios and masses or functions to work with chemical formulas. The package provides also a set of adduct definitions and information on some commercially available internal standard mixes commonly used in MS experiments.

Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS) with zero inflated beta (BEZI) family for analysis of microbiome relative abundance data (with various options for data transformation/normalization to address compositional effects) and random effects meta-analysis models for meta-analysis pooling estimates across microbiome studies are implemented. Random Forest model to predict microbiome age based on relative abundances of shared bacterial genera with the Bangladesh data (Subramanian et al 2014), comparison of multiple diversity indexes using linear/linear mixed effect models and some data display/visualization are also implemented. The reference paper is published by Ho NT, Li F, Wang S, Kuhn L (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2744-2> .

An ensemble meta-prediction framework to integrate multiple regression models into a current study. Gu, T., Taylor, J.M.G. and Mukherjee, B. (2020) <arXiv:2010.09971>. A meta-analysis framework along with two weighted estimators as the ensemble of empirical Bayes estimators, which combines the estimates from the different external models. The proposed framework is flexible and robust in the ways that (i) it is capable of incorporating external models that use a slightly different set of covariates; (ii) it is able to identify the most relevant external information and diminish the influence of information that is less compatible with the internal data; and (iii) it nicely balances the bias-variance trade-off while preserving the most efficiency gain. The proposed estimators are more efficient than the naive analysis of the internal data and other naive combinations of external estimators.

An implementation of metaheuristic algorithms for continuous optimization. Currently, the package contains the implementations of 21 algorithms, as follows: particle swarm optimization (Kennedy and Eberhart, 1995), ant lion optimizer (Mirjalili, 2015 <doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2015.01.010>), grey wolf optimizer (Mirjalili et al., 2014 <doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2013.12.007>), dragonfly algorithm (Mirjalili, 2015 <doi:10.1007/s00521-015-1920-1>), firefly algorithm (Yang, 2009 <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04944-6_14>), genetic algorithm (Holland, 1992, ISBN:978-0262581110), grasshopper optimisation algorithm (Saremi et al., 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2017.01.004>), harmony search algorithm (Mahdavi et al., 2007 <doi:10.1016/j.amc.2006.11.033>), moth flame optimizer (Mirjalili, 2015 <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2015.07.006>, sine cosine algorithm (Mirjalili, 2016 <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2015.12.022>), whale optimization algorithm (Mirjalili and Lewis, 2016 <doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2016.01.008>), clonal selection algorithm (Castro, 2002 <doi:10.1109/TEVC.2002.1011539>), differential evolution (Das & Suganthan, 2011), shuffled frog leaping (Eusuff, Landsey & Pasha, 2006), cat swarm optimization (Chu et al., 2006), artificial bee colony algorithm (Karaboga & Akay, 2009), krill-herd algorithm (Gandomi & Alavi, 2012), cuckoo search (Yang & Deb, 2009), bat algorithm (Yang, 2012), gravitational based search (Rashedi et al., 2009) and black hole optimization (Hatamlou, 2013).

The modified Adult Treatment Panel -III guidelines (ATP-III) proposed by American Heart Association (AHA) and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) are used widely for the clinical diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome. The AHA-NHLBI criteria advise using parameters such as waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), triglycerides (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) for diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. Each parameter has to be interpreted based on the proposed cut-offs, making the diagnosis slightly complex and error-prone. This package is developed by incorporating the modified ATP-III guidelines, and it will aid in the easy and quick diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in busy healthcare settings and also for research purposes. The modified ATP-III-AHA-NHLBI criteria for the diagnosis is described by Grundy et al ., (2005) <doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.169404>.

This package provides a set of functions to investigate raw data from (metabol)omics experiments intended to be used on a raw data matrix, i.e. following peak picking and signal deconvolution. Functions can be used to normalize data, detect biomarkers and perform sample classification. A detailed description of best practice usage may be found in the publication <doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7819-9_20>.