qcmetrics
qcmetrics provides quality control assessment, metric creation, management, visualization, and report generation for high-throughput genomic and molecular biology data within the Bioconductor/R ecosystem to support data integrity and reproducibility.
Key Features:
- Framework for Quality Control: Provides a structured, generic framework for quality control of diverse genomics and molecular biology datasets.
- Metric Creation and Management: Enables creation, storage, and management of individual or sets of QC metrics for datasets.
- Visualization of QC Metrics: Supports visualization of single metrics and metric sets to summarize data quality.
- Report Generation: Produces detailed QC reports in multiple formats for documenting quality assessments.
- Interoperability with Bioconductor: Integrates with other Bioconductor packages within the R environment to support downstream analyses.
Scientific Applications:
- High-throughput genomics and molecular biology data QC: Assesses and monitors quality of large-scale datasets to identify issues early and support reproducible downstream analysis.
Methodology:
Distributed as a Bioconductor package in R; subject to Bioconductor initial review and continuous automated testing; interoperates with other Bioconductor packages.
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Details
- License:
- GPL-2.0
- 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.