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netboost

Network Analysis Supported by Boosting

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 2.21.5

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Boosting-supported network analysis for high-dimensional omics data, implementing a three-step dimension reduction technique. A filter combined with the topological overlap measure first identifies the essential edges of the feature network, sparse hierarchical clustering then groups the selected features into modules, and each module is finally summarised by its first principal components. Subsequent analyses are carried out on these low-dimensional module signals instead of the original data, which makes the method well suited to epigenetics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, and other omics studies. The method is described in Schlosser et al. (2021) <doi:10.1109/TCBB.2020.2983010>.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.netboost

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("netboost")

Details

MaintainerPascal Schlosser <pascal.schlosser@uniklinik-freiburg.de>
AuthorPascal Schlosser [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-0462>), Jochen Knaus [aut, ctb], Alex Waterhölter [aut, ctb]
LicenseGPL-3
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/netboost.html
Bug Reportsmailto:pascal.schlosser@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsBiomedicalInformatics, Clustering, DimensionReduction, Epigenetics, GraphAndNetwork, Metabolomics, Network, Software, StatisticalMethod, Transcriptomics
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/netboost/

Citation

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

Pascal Schlosser, Jochen Knaus, Alex Waterhölter. netboost: Network Analysis Supported by Boosting. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.netboost, R package version 2.21.5, https://bioconductor.org/packages/netboost.

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

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)

Imports: Rcpp, RcppParallel, parallel, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils, dynamicTreeCut, WGCNA, impute, colorspace, methods

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