Package: MultiOmicsBridge Type: Package Title: Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis of Host Transcriptomics and Gut Microbiome Data Version: 0.99.1 Authors@R: c( person("Subhadip", "Jana", role = c("aut", "cre", "fnd"), email = "subhadipjana1409@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0003-7860-2853"))) Description: MultiOmicsBridge provides an end-to-end, reproducible computational framework for integrative analysis of paired host transcriptomics (bulk RNA-seq) and gut microbiome (16S rRNA or shotgun metagenomics) data. The package addresses the lack of a unified Bioconductor workflow for this pairing by implementing five modules: (1) data harmonization and normalization with CLR transformation for microbiome compositional data and TMM/voom for RNA-seq; (2) joint dimensionality reduction via sparse multi-block PLS-DA (DIABLO); (3) multi-omics biomarker discovery through cross-omics correlation networks and sparse feature loadings; (4) integrated diagnostic classification comparing host-only, microbiome-only, and joint Random Forest models with stratified cross-validation; and (5) publication-quality visualization of integration results, biomarker networks, classifier comparisons, and feature flow diagrams. All functions operate natively on SummarizedExperiment and MultiAssayExperiment objects and return a structured MOBResult S4 object. The package is validated on inflammatory bowel disease multi-omics data and designed with complex disease contexts (tuberculosis, HIV, EED) in mind. License: MIT + file LICENSE URL: https://github.com/SubhadipJana1409/MultiOmicsBridge BugReports: https://github.com/SubhadipJana1409/MultiOmicsBridge/issues biocViews: GeneExpression, Metagenomics, Classification, DimensionReduction, Normalization, StatisticalMethod, Sequencing, Microbiome, Transcriptomics, WorkflowStep, MultipleComparison, FeatureExtraction, Network, Visualization, QualityControl Encoding: UTF-8 Depends: R (>= 4.5.0) Imports: SummarizedExperiment, MultiAssayExperiment, S4Vectors, BiocParallel, limma, edgeR, mixOmics, grid, methods, stats, utils, ggplot2, rlang, ranger, pROC, ggrepel Suggests: BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr, curatedMetagenomicData, GEOquery VignetteBuilder: knitr Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0 Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libfreetype6-dev libglpk-dev libglu1-mesa-dev make texlive libicu-dev libpng-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-07-05 17:46:43 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/MultiOmicsBridge RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: a50579b75abec231246c8f79cefa6b5209f1071e NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-11 15:44:39 UTC; root Author: Subhadip Jana [aut, cre, fnd] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Subhadip Jana