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TaxSEA

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

Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

TaxSEA makes metagenomic data easier to interpret. Rather than reading species one at a time, it tests whether a-priori defined sets of taxa shift together, drawing on public databases (BugSigDB, MiMeDB, GutMGene, mBodyMap, BacDive and GMRepoV2) and on sets collated from the literature. Two approaches are provided. TaxSEA takes taxon names or NCBI IDs with a rank per taxon, such as a fold change or correlation coefficient, and tests each set with a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. ssTaxSEA scores every set in a single sample as the mean centered log-ratio of its members, giving a per-sample value to use in any downstream model. Both work with any taxonomic profiling technology, including 16S rRNA gene sequencing, shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomics.

Author: Feargal Ryan [aut, cre, fnd] (ORCID: ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1565-4598 , funding: Supported by NHMRC Investigator Grant)

Maintainer: Feargal Ryan <feargalr at gmail.com>

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

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("TaxSEA")
analysis_types HTML
frequently asked questions HTML
single_sample_enrichment HTML R Script
taxonomic_aggregation HTML
TaxSEA HTML R Script
Why use taxon set enrichment analysis? HTML
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews GeneSetEnrichment, Metagenomics, Microbiome, RNASeq, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.5.7
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.21 (R-4.5) (1.5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends R (>= 4.6.0)
Imports methods, stats, utils
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/feargalr/taxsea https://feargalr.github.io/TaxSEA/
Bug Reports https://github.com/feargalr/taxsea/issues
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package TaxSEA_1.5.7.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) TaxSEA_1.5.5.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) TaxSEA_1.5.7.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) TaxSEA_1.5.7.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/TaxSEA
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/TaxSEA
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/TaxSEA/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/TaxSEA/
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