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simona

Semantic Similarity on Bio-Ontologies

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.10.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

This package implements infrastructures for ontology analysis by offering efficient data structures, fast ontology traversal methods, and elegant visualizations. It provides a robust toolbox supporting over 70 methods for semantic similarity analysis.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.simona

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("simona")

Details

MaintainerZuguang Gu <guzuguang@suat-sz.edu.cn>
AuthorZuguang Gu [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7395-8709>)
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/jokergoo/simona
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/jokergoo/simona/issues
System RequirementsPerl, Java
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAnnotation, BiomedicalInformatics, GO, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/simona/

Citation

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

Zuguang Gu. simona: Semantic Similarity on Bio-Ontologies. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.simona, R package version 1.10.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/simona.

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

Documentation

Download

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

Source packagesimona_1.10.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)simona_1.10.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)simona_1.10.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)simona_1.10.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: methods, Rcpp, matrixStats, GetoptLong, grid, GlobalOptions, igraph, Polychrome, S4Vectors, xml2 (>= 1.3.3), circlize, ComplexHeatmap, grDevices, stats, utils, shiny, fastmatch

LinkingTo: Rcpp

Suggests: knitr, testthat, BiocManager, GO.db, org.Hs.eg.db, proxyC, AnnotationDbi, Matrix, DiagrammeR, ragg, png, InteractiveComplexHeatmap, UniProtKeywords, simplifyEnrichment, AnnotationHub, jsonlite

Reverse dependencies

Imports Me (2): GeDi, simplifyEnrichment