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Daniel Greene1,2, Sylvia Richardson1, Ernest Turro1,2
1MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK.
Summary:
Ontologies are widely used constructs for encoding and analyzing biomedical data, but the absence of simple and consistent tools has made exploratory and systematic analysis of such data unnecessarily difficult. Here we present three packages which aim to simplify such procedures. The ontologyIndex package enables arbitrary ontologies to be read into R, supports representation of ontological objects by native R types, and provides a parsimonius set of performant functions for querying ontologies. ontologySimilarity and ontologyPlot extend ontologyIndex with functionality for straightforward visualization and semantic similarity calculations, including statistical routines.
Availability And Implementation:
ontologyIndex , ontologyPlot and ontologySimilarity are all available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network website under https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ .
Contact:
Daniel Greene dg333@cam.ac.uk.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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