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MoonlightR

Identify oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from omics data

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Motivation: The understanding of cancer mechanism requires the identification of genes playing a role in the development of the pathology and the characterization of their role (notably oncogenes and tumor suppressors). Results: We present an R/bioconductor package called MoonlightR which returns a list of candidate driver genes for specific cancer types on the basis of TCGA expression data. The method first infers gene regulatory networks and then carries out a functional enrichment analysis (FEA) (implementing an upstream regulator analysis, URA) to score the importance of well-known biological processes with respect to the studied cancer type. Eventually, by means of random forests, MoonlightR predicts two specific roles for the candidate driver genes: i) tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) and ii) oncogenes (OCGs). As a consequence, this methodology does not only identify genes playing a dual role (e.g. TSG in one cancer type and OCG in another) but also helps in elucidating the biological processes underlying their specific roles. In particular, MoonlightR can be used to discover OCGs and TSGs in the same cancer type. This may help in answering the question whether some genes change role between early stages (I, II) and late stages (III, IV) in breast cancer. In the future, this analysis could be useful to determine the causes of different resistances to chemotherapeutic treatments.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.MoonlightR

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("MoonlightR")

Details

MaintainerMatteo Tiberti <tiberti@cancer.dk>
AuthorAntonio Colaprico [aut], Catharina Olsen [aut], Matthew H. Bailey [aut], Gabriel J. Odom [aut], Thilde Terkelsen [aut], Mona Nourbakhsh [aut], Astrid Saksager [aut], Tiago C. Silva [aut], André V. Olsen [aut], Laura Cantini [aut], Andrei Zinovyev [aut], Emmanuel Barillot [aut], Houtan Noushmehr [aut], Gloria Bertoli [aut], Isabella Castiglioni [aut], Claudia Cava [aut], Gianluca Bontempi [aut], Xi Steven Chen [aut], Elena Papaleo [aut], Matteo Tiberti [cre, aut]
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
URLhttps://github.com/ELELAB/MoonlightR
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/ELELAB/MoonlightR/issues
StatusDeprecated
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsDNAMethylation, DifferentialExpression, DifferentialMethylation, GeneExpression, GeneRegulation, GeneSetEnrichment, MethylationArray, Network, NetworkEnrichment, Pathways, Software, Survival
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/MoonlightR/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("MoonlightR"):

Antonio Colaprico, Catharina Olsen, Matthew H. Bailey, Gabriel J. Odom, Thilde Terkelsen, Mona Nourbakhsh, Astrid Saksager, Tiago C. Silva, André V. Olsen, Laura Cantini, Andrei Zinovyev, Emmanuel Barillot, Houtan Noushmehr, Gloria Bertoli, Isabella Castiglioni, Claudia Cava, Gianluca Bontempi, Xi Steven Chen, Elena Papaleo, Matteo Tiberti. MoonlightR: Identify oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from omics data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MoonlightR, R package version 1.39.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/MoonlightR.

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Documentation

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Source packageMoonlightR_1.39.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)MoonlightR_1.39.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)MoonlightR_1.39.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)MoonlightR_1.39.1.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5), doParallel, foreach

Imports: parmigene, randomForest, SummarizedExperiment, gplots, circlize, RColorBrewer, HiveR, clusterProfiler, DOSE, Biobase, limma, grDevices, graphics, TCGAbiolinks, GEOquery, stats, RISmed, grid, utils

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