CARNIVAL
This is the released version of CARNIVAL; for the devel version, see CARNIVAL.
All Bioconductor versions of CARNIVAL
3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11
A CAusal Reasoning tool for Network Identification (from gene expression data) using Integer VALue programming
Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 2.22.0
An upgraded causal reasoning tool from Melas et al in R with updated assignments of TFs' weights from PROGENy scores. Optimization parameters can be freely adjusted and multiple solutions can be obtained and aggregated.
Author: Enio Gjerga [aut] 
, Panuwat Trairatphisan [aut], Anika Liu [ctb], Alberto Valdeolivas [ctb], Nikolas Peschke [ctb], Aurelien Dugourd [ctb], Attila Gabor [cre], Olga Ivanova [aut]
Maintainer: Attila Gabor <attila.gabor at uni-heidelberg.de>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("CARNIVAL"):
Enio Gjerga, Panuwat Trairatphisan, Olga Ivanova. CARNIVAL: A CAusal Reasoning tool for Network Identification (from gene expression data) using Integer VALue programming. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.CARNIVAL, R package version 2.22.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/CARNIVAL.
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Installation
To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("CARNIVAL")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 2.22.0 |
| License | GPL-3 |
| URL | https://github.com/saezlab/CARNIVAL |
| Bug Reports | https://github.com/saezlab/CARNIVAL/issues |
| Last updated | 2026-04-28 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.11 (R-4.0) (6 years) |
| Downloads rank | 1190 of 2,418 |
| Source branch | RELEASE_3_23 |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | GeneExpression, Network, Software, Transcriptomics |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/CARNIVAL/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("CARNIVAL")| Contextualizing large scale signalling networks from expression footprints with CARNIVAL | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual | ||
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | CARNIVAL_2.22.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | CARNIVAL_2.22.0.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | CARNIVAL_2.22.0.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | CARNIVAL_2.22.0.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/CARNIVAL |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/CARNIVAL |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: R (>= 4.0)
Imports: readr, stringr, lpSolve, igraph, dplyr, tibble, tidyr, rjson, rmarkdown
Suggests: RefManageR, BiocStyle, covr, knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), sessioninfo
Reverse dependencies
Imports Me (1): cosmosR