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microbiome

This is the development version of microbiome; for the stable release version, see microbiome.

Microbiome Analytics


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Provides methods for microbiome data analysis and visualization, including compositional transformations, community profiling, diversity analysis, and exploration of taxonomic abundance data represented as phyloseq objects.

Author: Leo Lahti [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-5537-637X , Sudarshan Shetty [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-7280-9915 , Rasmus Hindström [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0004-5731-178X

Maintainer: Leo Lahti <leo.lahti at iki.fi>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("microbiome")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("microbiome")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("microbiome")
microbiome R package HTML R Script
microbiome with TreeSummarizedExperiment HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews Metagenomics, Microbiome, Sequencing, Software, SystemsBiology
Version 1.35.1
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.6 (R-3.4) (9 years)
License BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.5.0), phyloseq, ggplot2
Imports Biostrings, compositions, dplyr, methods, reshape2, Rtsne, scales, stats, tibble, tidyr, utils, vegan
System Requirements
URL http://microbiome.github.io/microbiome
Bug Reports https://github.com/microbiome/microbiome/issues
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Suggests BiocGenerics, BiocStyle, Cairo, knitr, mia, rmarkdown, SummarizedExperiment, testthat, TreeSummarizedExperiment
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me
Imports Me benchdamic, DspikeIn, MicrobiomeSurv
Suggests Me ANCOMBC, CrcBiomeScreen, dar, MeLSI, zitools
Links To Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package microbiome_1.35.1.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) microbiome_1.35.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) microbiome_1.35.1.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) microbiome_1.35.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/microbiome
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/microbiome
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/microbiome/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/microbiome/
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