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title: 'growkar: SummarizedExperiment Infrastructure for Microbial Growth Phenotyping'
version: 0.99.4
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.growkar
abstract: growkar provides Bioconductor-native infrastructure for high-throughput
  microbial growth phenotyping from plate-based assays such as optical density (OD)
  measurements. The package is built around SummarizedExperiment as its canonical
  data model, with OD measurements in assays, timepoint annotations in rowData, sample
  annotations in colData, and derived phenotypes in metadata. growkar supports data
  import, quality control, normalization, empirical growth-rate estimation, exponential-phase
  detection, and parametric modeling of growth dynamics. These workflows enable extraction
  of biologically meaningful phenotypes including lag time, growth rate, doubling
  time, and carrying capacity, and allow growth-derived phenotypes to be integrated
  with other Bioconductor analyses in microbial systems biology and multi-omics studies.
  The data-structure and analysis layers depend only on core Bioconductor infrastructure;
  graphing is optional and provided by 'plot_*' functions that are enabled when the
  suggested graphics package is installed.
authors:
- family-names: Sethiya
  given-names: Pooja
  email: poojasethiya24@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6584-3912
repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/sethiyap/growkar
commit: 6c1fa596975dd272f5d593c6c235f8fc6ded4348
url: https://github.com/sethiyap/growkar
date-released: '2026-09-07'
contact:
- family-names: Sethiya
  given-names: Pooja
  email: poojasethiya24@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6584-3912