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chromVAR

This is the released version of chromVAR; for the devel version, see chromVAR.

All Bioconductor versions of chromVAR

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

Chromatin Variation Across Regions

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.34.1

Determine variation in chromatin accessibility across sets of annotations or peaks. Designed primarily for single-cell or sparse chromatin accessibility data, e.g. from scATAC-seq or sparse bulk ATAC or DNAse-seq experiments.

Author: Alicia Schep [aut, cre], Jason Buenrostro [ctb], Caleb Lareau [ctb], William Greenleaf [ths], Stanford University [cph]

Maintainer: Alicia Schep <aschep at gmail.com>

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.chromVAR

Citation

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

Alicia Schep. chromVAR: Chromatin Variation Across Regions. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.chromVAR, R package version 1.34.1, https://bioconductor.org/packages/chromVAR.

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")

BiocManager::install("chromVAR")

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

Details

Version1.34.1
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
System RequirementsC++14
Last updated2026-05-08
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.6 (R-3.4) (8 years)
Downloads rank219 of 2,418
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneRegulation, ImmunoOncology, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/chromVAR/

Documentation

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

browseVignettes("chromVAR")
chromVAR HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagechromVAR_1.34.1.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)chromVAR_1.34.1.zip
macOS binary (arm64)chromVAR_1.34.1.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)chromVAR_1.34.1.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/chromVAR
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/chromVAR
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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)

Imports: IRanges, Seqinfo, GenomicRanges, ggplot2, nabor, BiocParallel, BiocGenerics, Biostrings, pwalign, TFBSTools, Rsamtools, S4Vectors, methods, Rcpp, grid, plotly, shiny, miniUI, stats, utils, graphics, DT, Rtsne, Matrix, SummarizedExperiment, RColorBrewer, BSgenome

LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo

Suggests: JASPAR2016, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, readr, testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, pheatmap, motifmatchr