caOmicsV: an R package for visualizing multidimensional cancer genomic data

BMC Bioinformatics

Software

Paul S. Meltzer¹  Sean R. Davis¹  Hongen Zhang¹ 

[1] Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 6138, 37 Convent Drive, 20892-4265, Bethesda, MD, USA;

关键词: Software;    R package;    Genomic data visualization;    Multidimensional data visualization;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12859-016-0989-6

 received in 2015-11-18, accepted in 2016-03-14,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundTranslational genomics research in cancers, e.g., International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), has generated large multidimensional datasets from high-throughput technologies. Data analysis at multidimensional level will greatly benefit clinical applications of genomic information in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutics of cancers. To help, tools to effectively visualize integrated multidimensional data are important for understanding and describing the relationship between genomic variations and cancers.ResultsWe implemented the R package, caOmicsV, to provide methods under R environment to visualize multidimensional cancer genomic data in two layouts: matrix layout and combined biological network and circular layout. Both layouts support to display sample information, gene expression (e.g., RNA and miRNA), DNA methylation, DNA copy number variations, and summarized data. A set of supplemental functions are included in the caOmicsV package to help users in generation of plot data sets from multiple genomic datasets with given gene names and sample names. Default plot methods for both layouts for easy use are also implemented.ConclusioncaOmicsV package provides an easy and flexible way to visualize integrated multidimensional cancer genomic data under R environment.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Zhang et al. 2016