Section: New Software and Platforms

Upgraded Software

TcGSA

Time-course Gene Set Analysis

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Genomics

Functional Description

An R package for the gene set analysis of longitudinal gene expression data sets. Available on the CRAN website, this package implements a Time-course Gene Set Analysis method and provides useful plotting functions facilitating the interpretation of the results.

• Contact: Boris Hejblum

• URL: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TcGSA/index.html

VSURF

Variable Selection Using Random Forests

Keyword: Bioinformatics

Functional Description

An R package for Variable Selection Using Random Forests. Available on CRAN, this package performs an automatic (meaning completely data-driven) variable selection procedure. Originally designed to deal with high dimensional data, it can also be applied to standard datasets.

• Contact: Robin Genuer

• URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/VSURF/index.html