heatmaps
This is the development version of heatmaps; for the stable release version, see heatmaps.
All Bioconductor versions of heatmaps
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
Flexible Heatmaps for Functional Genomics and Sequence Features
Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.37.0
This package provides functions for plotting heatmaps of genome-wide data across genomic intervals, such as ChIP-seq signals at peaks or across promoters. Many functions are also provided for investigating sequence features.
Author: Malcolm Perry <mgperry32 at gmail.com>
Maintainer: Malcolm Perry <mgperry32 at gmail.com>
Citation
From within R, enter citation("heatmaps"):
Malcolm Perry. heatmaps: Flexible Heatmaps for Functional Genomics and Sequence Features. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.heatmaps, R package version 1.37.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/heatmaps.
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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("heatmaps")For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Details
| Version | 1.37.0 |
| License | Artistic-2.0 |
| Last updated | 2026-04-28 |
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.5 (R-3.4) (9 years) |
| Downloads rank | 454 of 2,456 |
| Source branch | devel |
| Build report | Bioconductor build system, r-universe |
| biocViews | FunctionalGenomics, SequenceMatching, Software, Visualization |
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/heatmaps/ |
Documentation
| Reference Manual | |
| NEWS | Text |
Download
Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source package | heatmaps_1.37.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binary (x86_64) | heatmaps_1.37.0.zip |
| macOS binary (arm64) | heatmaps_1.37.0.tgz |
| macOS binary (x86_64) | heatmaps_1.37.0.tgz |
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/heatmaps |
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/heatmaps |
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats |
Dependencies
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: methods, grDevices, graphics, stats, Biostrings, GenomicRanges, IRanges, KernSmooth, plotrix, Matrix, EBImage, RColorBrewer, BiocGenerics, Seqinfo
Suggests: BSgenome.Drerio.UCSC.danRer7, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat