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scanMiR

scanMiR

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.18.0

A set of tools for working with miRNA affinity models (KdModels), efficiently scanning for miRNA binding sites, and predicting target repression. It supports scanning using miRNA seeds, full miRNA sequences (enabling 3' alignment) and KdModels, and includes the prediction of slicing and TDMD sites. Finally, it includes utility and plotting functions (e.g. for the visual representation of miRNA-target alignment).

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("scanMiR")

Details

MaintainerPierre-Luc Germain <pierre-luc.germain@hest.ethz.ch>
AuthorPierre-Luc Germain [cre, aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-4218>), Michael Soutschek [aut], Fridolin Gross [aut]
LicenseGPL-3
Downloads rank280
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsAlignment, SequenceMatching, Software, miRNA

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.0)

Imports: Biostrings, pwalign, GenomicRanges, IRanges, data.table, BiocParallel, methods, Seqinfo, S4Vectors, ggplot2, stats, stringi, utils, graphics, grid, seqLogo, cowplot

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): scanMiRApp

Imports Me (1): scanMiRData