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ggmsa

Plot Multiple Sequence Alignment using 'ggplot2'

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.18.0

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A visual exploration tool for multiple sequence alignment and associated data. Supports MSA of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences using 'ggplot2'. Multiple sequence alignment can easily be combined with other 'ggplot2' plots, such as phylogenetic tree Visualized by 'ggtree', boxplot, genome map and so on. More features: visualization of sequence logos, sequence bundles, RNA secondary structures and detection of sequence recombinations.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.ggmsa

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("ggmsa")

Details

MaintainerGuangchuang Yu <guangchuangyu@gmail.com>
AuthorGuangchuang Yu [aut, cre, ths] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-8781>), Lang Zhou [aut], Shuangbin Xu [ctb], Huina Huang [ctb]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbac222(paper), https://www.amazon.com/Integration-Manipulation-Visualization-Phylogenetic-Computational-ebook/dp/B0B5NLZR1Z/ (book)
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/YuLab-SMU/ggmsa/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAlignment, Annotation, MultipleSequenceAlignment, Software, Visualization
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/ggmsa/

Citation

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

Guangchuang Yu, Lang Zhou. ggmsa: Plot Multiple Sequence Alignment using 'ggplot2'. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.ggmsa, R package version 1.18.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/ggmsa.

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

Documentation

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

Source packageggmsa_1.18.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)ggmsa_1.18.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)ggmsa_1.18.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)ggmsa_1.18.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: Biostrings, ggplot2, magrittr, tidyr, utils, stats, aplot, RColorBrewer, ggfun (>= 0.2.0), ggforce, dplyr, R4RNA, grDevices, seqmagick, grid, methods, ggtree (>= 1.17.1)

Suggests: ggtreeExtra, ape, cowplot, knitr, rmarkdown, readxl, ggnewscale, kableExtra, gggenes, statebins, prettydoc, testthat (>= 3.0.0), yulab.utils

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (1): ggaligner