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XAItest

This is the released version of XAItest; for the devel version, see XAItest.

XAItest: Enhancing Feature Discovery with eXplainable AI


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

XAItest is an R Package that identifies features using eXplainable AI (XAI) methods such as SHAP or LIME. This package allows users to compare these methods with traditional statistical tests like t-tests, empirical Bayes, and Fisher's test. Additionally, it includes simThresh, a system that enables the comparison of feature importance with p-values by incorporating calibrated simulated data.

Author: Ghislain FIEVET [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-0337-7327 , Sébastien HERGALANT [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-8456-7992

Maintainer: Ghislain FIEVET <ghislain.fievet at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("XAItest")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

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 (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


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

BiocManager::install("XAItest")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("XAItest")
01_XAItest HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews Classification, FeatureExtraction, Regression, Software, StatisticalMethod
Version 1.4.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.21 (R-4.5) (1.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports limma, randomForest, kernelshap, caret, lime, DT, methods, SummarizedExperiment, ggplot2
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/GhislainFievet/XAItest
Bug Reports https://github.com/GhislainFievet/XAItest/issues
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Suggests knitr, ggforce, shapr (>= 1.0.1), airway, xgboost, BiocGenerics, RUnit, S4Vectors
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package XAItest_1.4.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) XAItest_1.3.2.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) XAItest_1.4.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) XAItest_1.4.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/XAItest
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/XAItest
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/XAItest/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/XAItest/
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