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TaxSEA

Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.5.7

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TaxSEA makes metagenomic data easier to interpret. Rather than reading species one at a time, it tests whether a-priori defined sets of taxa shift together, drawing on public databases (BugSigDB, MiMeDB, GutMGene, mBodyMap, BacDive and GMRepoV2) and on sets collated from the literature. Two approaches are provided. TaxSEA takes taxon names or NCBI IDs with a rank per taxon, such as a fold change or correlation coefficient, and tests each set with a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. ssTaxSEA scores every set in a single sample as the mean centered log-ratio of its members, giving a per-sample value to use in any downstream model. Both work with any taxonomic profiling technology, including 16S rRNA gene sequencing, shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomics.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.TaxSEA

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("TaxSEA")

Details

MaintainerFeargal Ryan <feargalr@gmail.com>
AuthorFeargal Ryan [aut, cre, fnd] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1565-4598>, funding: Supported by NHMRC Investigator Grant)
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://github.com/feargalr/taxsea, https://feargalr.github.io/TaxSEA/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/feargalr/taxsea/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneSetEnrichment, Metagenomics, Microbiome, RNASeq, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/TaxSEA/

Citation

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

Feargal Ryan. TaxSEA: Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.TaxSEA, R package version 1.5.7, https://bioconductor.org/packages/TaxSEA.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

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

Source packageTaxSEA_1.5.7.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)TaxSEA_1.5.7.zip
macOS binary (arm64)TaxSEA_1.5.7.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)TaxSEA_1.5.7.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5.0)

Imports: methods, stats, utils

Suggests: BiocStyle, S4Vectors, bugsigdbr, fgsea, knitr, mia, rmarkdown, SummarizedExperiment, testthat