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growkar

This is the development version of growkar; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

SummarizedExperiment Infrastructure for Microbial Growth Phenotyping


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

growkar provides Bioconductor-native infrastructure for high-throughput microbial growth phenotyping from plate-based assays such as optical density (OD) measurements. The package is built around SummarizedExperiment as its canonical data model, with OD measurements in assays, timepoint annotations in rowData, sample annotations in colData, and derived phenotypes in metadata. growkar supports data import, quality control, normalization, empirical growth-rate estimation, exponential-phase detection, and parametric modeling of growth dynamics. These workflows enable extraction of biologically meaningful phenotypes including lag time, growth rate, doubling time, and carrying capacity, and allow growth-derived phenotypes to be integrated with other Bioconductor analyses in microbial systems biology and multi-omics studies. The data-structure and analysis layers depend only on core Bioconductor infrastructure; graphing is optional and provided by 'plot_*' functions that are enabled when suggested graphics packages are installed.

Author: Pooja Sethiya [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-6584-3912

Maintainer: Pooja Sethiya <poojasethiya24 at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("growkar")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

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("growkar")

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

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("growkar")
growkar-introduction HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews DataImport, ExperimentalDesign, Infrastructure, Normalization, QualityControl, Software, SystemsBiology, Visualization
Version 0.99.2
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.6.0)
Imports methods, S4Vectors, SummarizedExperiment, tidySummarizedExperiment, dplyr, purrr, rlang, stats, tibble, tidyr, utils
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URL https://github.com/sethiyap/growkar
Bug Reports https://github.com/sethiyap/growkar/issues
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Suggests ggplot2, RColorBrewer, knitr, remotes, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Source Package growkar_0.99.2.tar.gz
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macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) growkar_0.99.2.tgz
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Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/growkar
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/growkar
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/growkar/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/growkar/
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