decontam

This package is for version 3.17 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see decontam.

Identify Contaminants in Marker-gene and Metagenomics Sequencing Data


Bioconductor version: 3.17

Simple statistical identification of contaminating sequence features in marker-gene or metagenomics data. Works on any kind of feature derived from environmental sequencing data (e.g. ASVs, OTUs, taxonomic groups, MAGs,...). Requires DNA quantitation data or sequenced negative control samples.

Author: Benjamin Callahan [aut, cre], Nicole Marie Davis [aut], Felix G.M. Ernst [ctb]

Maintainer: Benjamin Callahan <benjamin.j.callahan at gmail.com>

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

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.3") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("decontam")

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("decontam")
Introduction to dada2 HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews Classification, ImmunoOncology, Metagenomics, Microbiome, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.20.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.7 (R-3.5) (6 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 3.4.1), methods (>= 3.4.1)
Imports ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), reshape2 (>= 1.4.1), stats
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URL https://github.com/benjjneb/decontam
Bug Reports https://github.com/benjjneb/decontam/issues
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Source Package decontam_1.20.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary decontam_1.20.0.zip
macOS Binary (x86_64) decontam_1.20.0.tgz
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Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/decontam
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/decontam
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/decontam/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/decontam/
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