OncoScore
This is the development version of OncoScore; for the stable release version, see OncoScore.
All Bioconductor versions of OncoScore
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, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3
A tool to identify potentially oncogenic genes
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.41.0
OncoScore is a tool to measure the association of genes to cancer based on citation frequencies in biomedical literature. The score is evaluated from PubMed literature by dynamically updatable web queries.
Author: Luca De Sano [cre, aut] 
, Carlo Gambacorti Passerini [ctb], Rocco Piazza [ctb], Daniele Ramazzotti [aut] , Roberta Spinelli [ctb]
Maintainer: Luca De Sano <luca.desano at gmail.com>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("OncoScore"):
Luca De Sano, Daniele Ramazzotti. OncoScore: A tool to identify potentially oncogenic genes. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.OncoScore, R package version 1.41.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/OncoScore.
Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.
Installation
To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")
BiocManager::install("OncoScore")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 1.41.0 |
| License | file LICENSE |
| URL | https://github.com/danro9685/OncoScore |
| Bug Reports | https://github.com/danro9685/OncoScore |
| Last updated | 2026-04-28 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.3 (R-3.3) (10 years) |
| Downloads rank | 1275 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | BiomedicalInformatics, Software |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/OncoScore/ |
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("OncoScore")| Introduction | HTML | R Script |
| Running OncoScore | HTML | R Script |
| Reference Manual | ||
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | OncoScore_1.41.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | OncoScore_1.41.0.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | OncoScore_1.41.0.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | OncoScore_1.41.0.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/OncoScore |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/OncoScore |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: biomaRt, grDevices, graphics, utils, methods
Suggests: BiocGenerics, BiocStyle, knitr, testthat