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methylclock

This is the development version of methylclock; for the stable release version, see methylclock.

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Chronological, Gestational and Biological DNAm Age Estimation with Methylation-Based Clocks


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Estimates chronological, gestational and biological DNA methylation (DNAm) age, trait scores and epigenetic age acceleration from methylation beta values. Implements 44 published clocks, selectable by name, family or array platform: chronological (Horvath, Hannum, BNN, skin+blood, PedBE, Wu, AltumAge and others, including the cross-platform Garma clock native to EPICv2), gestational (Knight, Bohlin, Mayne, Lee, NEOage), phenotypic and pace-of-aging (Levine, DunedinPACE), telomere length, mitotic counters (epiTOC1/epiTOC2, HypoClock, stemTOC, RepliTali), causal (CausAge, DamAge, AdaptAge) and trait EpiScores. Accepts matrices, data frames, Bioconductor containers or HDF5 files, computing block-wise out-of-core through BigDataStatMeth when the data exceed memory. Provides configurable missing-value imputation (mean, reference or KNN), cell-type deconvolution, intrinsic and extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (IEAA, EEAA), quality-control reports and plotting functions.

Author: Dolors Pelegri-Siso [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-5993-3003 , Juan R. Gonzalez [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-3267-2146

Maintainer: Dolors Pelegri-Siso <dolors.pelegri at isglobal.org>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("methylclock")):

Dolors Pelegri-Siso, Juan R. Gonzalez. methylclock: Chronological, Gestational and Biological DNAm Age Estimation with Methylation-Based Clocks. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.methylclock, R package version 1.99.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/methylclock.

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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("methylclock")

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

Documentation

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browseVignettes("methylclock")
Estimating DNA methylation age with methylclock HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews BiologicalQuestion, DNAMethylation, Normalization, Preprocessing, Software, StatisticalMethod
Version1.99.2
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.14 (R-4.1) (5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.3.0)
Imports utils, stats, preprocessCore, Rcpp, BigDataStatMeth, ExperimentHub, ggplot2, rlang, quadprog
System RequirementsGNU make, C++17
URLhttps://github.com/isglobal-brge/methylclock
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/isglobal-brge/methylclock/issues
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Source Package methylclock_1.99.2.tar.gz
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