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A User-friendly and Powerful R Analysis of Large-scale Datasets
Published on: November 4, 2025
The epiGenomic Efficient Correlator (epiGeEC) tool allows fast comparison of user datasets with thousands of public
Jonathan Laperle1,2, Simon Hébert-Deschamps1, Joanny Raby2
1Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
Summary:
In recent years, major initiatives such as the International Human Epigenome Consortium have generated thousands of high-quality genome-wide datasets for a large variety of assays and cell types. This data can be used as a reference to assess whether the signal from a user-provided dataset corresponds to its expected experiment, as well as to help reveal unexpected biological associations. We have developed the epiGenomic Efficient Correlator (epiGeEC) tool to enable genome-wide comparisons of very large numbers of datasets. A public Galaxy implementation of epiGeEC allows comparison of user datasets with thousands of public datasets in a few minutes.
Availability And Implementation:
The source code is available at https://bitbucket.org/labjacquespe/epigeec and the Galaxy implementation at http://epigeec.genap.ca.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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