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SPONGE

Sparse Partial Correlations On Gene Expression

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.34.1

This package provides methods to efficiently detect competitive endogeneous RNA interactions between two genes. Such interactions are mediated by one or several miRNAs such that both gene and miRNA expression data for a larger number of samples is needed as input. The SPONGE package now also includes spongEffects: ceRNA modules offer patient-specific insights into the miRNA regulatory landscape.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("SPONGE")

Details

MaintainerMarkus List <markus.list@tum.de>
AuthorMarkus List [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0941-4168>), Markus Hoffmann [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1920-288X>), Lena Strasser [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7881-6818>), Fabio Boniolo [aut], Azim Dehghani Amirabad [aut], Dennis Kostka [aut], Marcel H. Schulz [aut]
LicenseGPL (>=3)
Downloads rank587
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsGeneExpression, GeneRegulation, MachineLearning, NetworkInference, RandomForest, Regression, Software, SystemsBiology, Transcription, Transcriptomics

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageSPONGE_1.34.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)SPONGE_1.34.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)SPONGE_1.34.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)SPONGE_1.34.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.6)

Imports: methods, Biobase, stats, ppcor, logger, foreach, doRNG, data.table, MASS, expm, gRbase, glmnet, igraph, iterators, caret, dplyr, biomaRt, randomForest, ggridges, cvms, ComplexHeatmap, ggplot2, MetBrewer, rlang, tnet, ggpubr, stringr, tidyr, tibble

Suggests: testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, visNetwork, ggrepel, gridExtra, digest, doParallel, bigmemory, GSVA

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): miRspongeR

Suggests Me (1): mirTarRnaSeq