DaMiRseq - an R/Bioconductor package for data mining of RNA-Seq data: normalization, feature selection and classification

Summary RNA-Seq is becoming the technique of choice for high-throughput transcriptome profiling, which, besides class comparison for differential expression, promises to be an effective and powerful tool for biomarker discovery. However, a systematic analysis of high-dimensional genomic data is a demanding task for such a purpose. DaMiRseq offers an organized, flexible and convenient framework to remove noise and bias, select the most informative features and perform accurate classification. Availability and implementation DaMiRseq is developed for the R environment (R ≥ 3.4) and is released under GPL (≥2) License. The package runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh operating systems and is freely available to non-commercial users at the Bioconductor open-source, open-development software project repository (https://bioconductor.org/packages/DaMiRseq/). In compliance with Bioconductor standards, the authors ensure stable package maintenance through software and documentation updates. Contact luca.piacentini@ccfm.it. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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