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decontam

Identify Contaminants in Marker-gene and Metagenomics Sequencing Data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.32.0

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Simple statistical identification of contaminating sequence features in marker-gene or metagenomics data. Works on any kind of feature derived from environmental sequencing data (e.g. ASVs, OTUs, taxonomic groups, MAGs,...). Requires DNA quantitation data or sequenced negative control samples.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.decontam

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("decontam")

Details

MaintainerBenjamin Callahan <benjamin.j.callahan@gmail.com>
AuthorBenjamin Callahan [aut, cre], Nicole Marie Davis [aut], Felix G.M. Ernst [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-0928>)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://github.com/benjjneb/decontam
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/benjjneb/decontam/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsClassification, ImmunoOncology, Metagenomics, Microbiome, Sequencing, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/decontam/

Citation

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

Benjamin Callahan, Nicole Marie Davis. decontam: Identify Contaminants in Marker-gene and Metagenomics Sequencing Data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.decontam, R package version 1.32.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/decontam.

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

Documentation

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Source packagedecontam_1.32.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)decontam_1.32.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)decontam_1.32.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)decontam_1.32.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.4.1), methods (>= 3.4.1)

Imports: ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), reshape2 (>= 1.4.1), stats

Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, phyloseq

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): mia