biobroom

biobroom converts BioConductor R objects into tidy data frames using broom-style tidy, augment, and glance conventions to support recombination, reshaping, and visualization of high-throughput genomics and molecular biology data.


Key Features:

  • Integration with BioConductor: Implements methods for standard objects produced by BioConductor packages and targets BioConductor object classes in R.
  • Tidy data conversion: Transforms complex bioinformatics objects into tidy data formats suitable for downstream manipulation and analysis.
  • Enhanced visualization and analysis: Produces tidy outputs that facilitate application of statistical methods and graphical representations for genomic and molecular data.
  • Standardized data representation: Produces consistent, table-like outputs that enable combining and comparing datasets across projects and analyses.

Scientific Applications:

  • Genomic data analysis: Prepares genomic datasets for downstream analyses such as differential expression studies and variant calling.
  • Molecular biology research: Converts molecular biology assay objects into tidy formats for hypothesis testing and experimental analysis.
  • Interdisciplinary studies: Standardizes outputs to support integration of genomic and molecular data across collaborative projects.

Methodology:

Converts BioConductor objects into tidy tables following the tidy, augment, and glance framework to enable recombine, reshape, and visualize operations with outputs usable by downstream statistical and graphical methods.

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Details

License:
GPL-3.0
Tool Type:
command-line tool, library
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
R
Added:
1/17/2017
Last Updated:
11/25/2024

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Publications

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M. Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor. Nature Methods. 2015;12(2):115-121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252. PMID:25633503. PMCID:PMC4509590.

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