Package: animalcules Title: Interactive microbiome analysis toolkit Version: 1.29.0 Authors@R: c(person(given=c("W.", "Evan"), family="Johnson", email="wej@bu.edu", role=c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6247-6595")), person(given="Yue", family="Zhao", email="yuezh@bu.edu", role=c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5257-5103")), person(given="Anthony", family="Federico", email="anfed@bu.edu", role=c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9200-1689")), person(given="Jessica", family="Anderson", email="anderson.jessica@rutgers.edu", role=c("ctr"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0542-9872"))) Description: animalcules is an R package for utilizing up-to-date data analytics, visualization methods, and machine learning models to provide users an easy-to-use interactive microbiome analysis framework. It can be used as a standalone software package or users can explore their data with the accompanying interactive R Shiny application. Traditional microbiome analysis such as alpha/beta diversity and differential abundance analysis are enhanced, while new methods like biomarker identification are introduced by animalcules. Powerful interactive and dynamic figures generated by animalcules enable users to understand their data better and discover new insights. License: Artistic-2.0 URL: https://github.com/wejlab/animalcules BugReports: https://github.com/wejlab/animalcules/issues Depends: R (>= 4.3.0) Imports: ape, assertthat, caret, covr, DESeq2, dplyr, DT, forcats, ggforce, ggplot2, GUniFrac, lattice, limma, magrittr, Matrix, methods, MultiAssayExperiment, plotly, rentrez, reshape2, ROCit, S4Vectors (>= 0.23.19), scales, shiny, shinyjs, stats, SummarizedExperiment, tibble, tidyr, tsne, umap, utils, vegan, XML Suggests: BiocStyle, biomformat, devtools, glmnet, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, usethis VignetteBuilder: knitr biocViews: Microbiome, Metagenomics, Coverage, Visualization Encoding: UTF-8 RoxygenNote: 7.3.0 Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev make libicu-dev libpng-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev python3 zlib1g-dev Repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 12:50:11 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/animalcules RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: cecf67841734f2108dc907f7965c609228993f4d NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-04 02:18:22 UTC; root Author: W. Evan Johnson [aut, cre] (ORCID: ), Yue Zhao [aut] (ORCID: ), Anthony Federico [aut] (ORCID: ), Jessica Anderson [ctr] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: W. Evan Johnson