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plasmut

Stratifying mutations observed in cell-free DNA and white blood cells as germline, hematopoietic, or somatic

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.11.0

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A Bayesian method for quantifying the liklihood that a given plasma mutation arises from clonal hematopoesis or the underlying tumor. It requires sequencing data of the mutation in plasma and white blood cells with the number of distinct and mutant reads in both tissues. We implement a Monte Carlo importance sampling method to assess the likelihood that a mutation arises from the tumor relative to non-tumor origin.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.plasmut

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("plasmut")

Details

MaintainerAdith Arun <adith.3.arun@gmail.com>
AuthorAdith Arun [aut, cre], Robert Scharpf [aut]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsBayesian, GermlineMutation, Sequencing, Software, SomaticMutation
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/plasmut/

Citation

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

Adith Arun, Robert Scharpf. plasmut: Stratifying mutations observed in cell-free DNA and white blood cells as germline, hematopoietic, or somatic. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.plasmut, R package version 1.11.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/plasmut.

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

Documentation

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Source packageplasmut_1.11.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)plasmut_1.11.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)plasmut_1.11.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)plasmut_1.11.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.3.0)

Imports: tibble, stats, dplyr

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, tidyverse, ggrepel, magrittr, qpdf, BiocStyle, biocViews, testthat (>= 3.0.0)