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CAGEfightR

Analysis of Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE) data using Bioconductor

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.32.0

CAGE is a widely used high throughput assay for measuring transcription start site (TSS) activity. CAGEfightR is an R/Bioconductor package for performing a wide range of common data analysis tasks for CAGE and 5'-end data in general. Core functionality includes: import of CAGE TSSs (CTSSs), tag (or unidirectional) clustering for TSS identification, bidirectional clustering for enhancer identification, annotation with transcript and gene models, correlation of TSS and enhancer expression, calculation of TSS shapes, quantification of CAGE expression as expression matrices and genome brower visualization.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("CAGEfightR")

Details

MaintainerMalte Thodberg <maltethodberg@gmail.com>
AuthorMalte Thodberg
LicenseGPL-3 + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/MalteThodberg/CAGEfightR
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/MalteThodberg/CAGEfightR/issues
Downloads rank489
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsAnnotation, Coverage, DataImport, DataRepresentation, GeneExpression, GeneRegulation, GenomeBrowsers, Normalization, PeakDetection, Preprocessing, Sequencing, Software, Transcription, Transcriptomics, Visualization

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5), GenomicRanges (>= 1.61.1), rtracklayer (>= 1.69.1), SummarizedExperiment (>= 1.39.1)

Imports: lobstr (>= 1.1.3), purrr (>= 1.2.0), assertthat (>= 0.2.0), methods (>= 3.6.3), Matrix (>= 1.2-12), BiocGenerics (>= 0.24.0), S4Vectors (>= 0.16.0), IRanges (>= 2.12.0), Seqinfo (>= 1.0.0), GenomicFeatures (>= 1.61.4), GenomicAlignments (>= 1.45.1), BiocParallel (>= 1.12.0), GenomicFiles (>= 1.14.0), Gviz (>= 1.22.2), InteractionSet (>= 1.9.4), GenomicInteractions (>= 1.15.1)

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, org.Mm.eg.db, TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): CAGEWorkflow

Imports Me (1): CAGEr

Suggests Me (1): nanotubes