Package: MoonlightR Type: Package Title: Identify oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from omics data Version: 1.39.0 Date: 07-08-2020 Authors@R: c(person("Antonio", "Colaprico", role="aut"), person("Catharina", "Olsen", role="aut"), person("Matthew H.", "Bailey", role="aut"), person("Gabriel J.", "Odom", role="aut"), person("Thilde", "Terkelsen", role="aut"), person("Mona", "Nourbakhsh", role="aut"), person("Astrid", "Saksager", role="aut"), person("Tiago C.", "Silva", role="aut"), person("André V.", "Olsen", role="aut"), person("Laura", "Cantini", role="aut"), person("Andrei", "Zinovyev", role="aut"), person("Emmanuel", "Barillot", role="aut"), person("Houtan", "Noushmehr", role="aut"), person("Gloria", "Bertoli", role="aut"), person("Isabella", "Castiglioni", role="aut"), person("Claudia","Cava", role="aut"), person("Gianluca", "Bontempi", role="aut"), person("Xi Steven", "Chen", role="aut"), person("Elena", "Papaleo", role="aut"), person("Matteo", "Tiberti", role=c("cre", "aut"), email="tiberti@cancer.dk", )) Depends: R (>= 3.5), doParallel, foreach Imports: parmigene, randomForest, SummarizedExperiment, gplots, circlize, RColorBrewer, HiveR, clusterProfiler, DOSE, Biobase, limma, grDevices, graphics, TCGAbiolinks, GEOquery, stats, RISmed, grid, utils Description: Motivation: The understanding of cancer mechanism requires the identification of genes playing a role in the development of the pathology and the characterization of their role (notably oncogenes and tumor suppressors). Results: We present an R/bioconductor package called MoonlightR which returns a list of candidate driver genes for specific cancer types on the basis of TCGA expression data. The method first infers gene regulatory networks and then carries out a functional enrichment analysis (FEA) (implementing an upstream regulator analysis, URA) to score the importance of well-known biological processes with respect to the studied cancer type. Eventually, by means of random forests, MoonlightR predicts two specific roles for the candidate driver genes: i) tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) and ii) oncogenes (OCGs). As a consequence, this methodology does not only identify genes playing a dual role (e.g. TSG in one cancer type and OCG in another) but also helps in elucidating the biological processes underlying their specific roles. In particular, MoonlightR can be used to discover OCGs and TSGs in the same cancer type. This may help in answering the question whether some genes change role between early stages (I, II) and late stages (III, IV) in breast cancer. In the future, this analysis could be useful to determine the causes of different resistances to chemotherapeutic treatments. License: GPL (>= 3) biocViews: DNAMethylation, DifferentialMethylation, GeneRegulation, GeneExpression, MethylationArray, DifferentialExpression, Pathways, Network, Survival, GeneSetEnrichment, NetworkEnrichment Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, devtools, roxygen2, png, edgeR VignetteBuilder: knitr LazyData: true URL: https://github.com/ELELAB/MoonlightR BugReports: https://github.com/ELELAB/MoonlightR/issues RoxygenNote: 7.2.3 Encoding: UTF-8 Config/pak/sysreqs: libcairo2-dev cmake libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglpk-dev libglu1-mesa-dev make texlive libicu-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 12:44:28 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/MoonlightR RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: b7cfad849539c019ba1e2b8ded50f1b510171488 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-03 21:32:58 UTC; root Author: Antonio Colaprico [aut], Catharina Olsen [aut], Matthew H. Bailey [aut], Gabriel J. Odom [aut], Thilde Terkelsen [aut], Mona Nourbakhsh [aut], Astrid Saksager [aut], Tiago C. Silva [aut], André V. Olsen [aut], Laura Cantini [aut], Andrei Zinovyev [aut], Emmanuel Barillot [aut], Houtan Noushmehr [aut], Gloria Bertoli [aut], Isabella Castiglioni [aut], Claudia Cava [aut], Gianluca Bontempi [aut], Xi Steven Chen [aut], Elena Papaleo [aut], Matteo Tiberti [cre, aut] Maintainer: Matteo Tiberti