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MassArray

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

Analytical Tools for MassArray Data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

This package is designed for the import, quality control, analysis, and visualization of methylation data generated using Sequenom's MassArray platform. The tools herein contain a highly detailed amplicon prediction for optimal assay design. Also included are quality control measures of data, such as primer dimer and bisulfite conversion efficiency estimation. Methylation data are calculated using the same algorithms contained in the EpiTyper software package. Additionally, automatic SNP-detection can be used to flag potentially confounded data from specific CG sites. Visualization includes barplots of methylation data as well as UCSC Genome Browser-compatible BED tracks. Multiple assays can be positionally combined for integrated analysis.

Author: Reid F. Thompson <reid.thompson at gmail.com>, John M. Greally <john.greally at einstein.yu.edu>

Maintainer: Reid F. Thompson <reid.thompson at gmail.com>

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

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("MassArray")
1. Primer PDF R Script
Reference Manual PDF

Details

biocViews DNAMethylation, DataImport, Genetics, ImmunoOncology, MassSpectrometry, SNP, Software, Visualization
Version 1.65.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 2.6 (R-2.11) (16.5 years)
License GPL (>=2)
Depends R (>= 2.10.0), methods
Imports graphics, grDevices, stats, utils
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Source Package MassArray_1.65.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) MassArray_1.65.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) MassArray_1.65.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) MassArray_1.65.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/MassArray
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/MassArray
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/MassArray/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/MassArray/
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