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prebs

Probe region expression estimation for RNA-seq data for improved microarray comparability

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.53.0

The prebs package aims at making RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data more comparable to microarray data. The comparability is achieved by summarizing sequencing-based expressions of probe regions using a modified version of RMA algorithm. The pipeline takes mapped reads in BAM format as an input and produces either gene expressions or original microarray probe set expressions as an output.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("prebs")

Details

MaintainerKarolis Uziela <karolis.uziela@scilifelab.se>
AuthorKarolis Uziela and Antti Honkela
LicenseArtistic-2.0
Downloads rank573
Source branchdevel
biocViewsGeneExpression, ImmunoOncology, Microarray, Preprocessing, RNASeq, Sequencing, Software

Documentation

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

Source packageprebs_1.53.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)prebs_1.53.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)prebs_1.53.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)prebs_1.53.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 2.14.0), GenomicAlignments, affy, RPA

Imports: parallel, methods, stats, GenomicRanges (>= 1.13.3), IRanges, Biobase, Seqinfo, S4Vectors

Suggests: prebsdata, hgu133plus2cdf, hgu133plus2probe