Package: methylclock 1.19.0

Dolors Pelegri-Siso

methylclock: Methylclock - DNA methylation-based clocks

This package allows to estimate chronological and gestational DNA methylation (DNAm) age as well as biological age using different methylation clocks. Chronological DNAm age (in years) : Horvath's clock, Hannum's clock, BNN, Horvath's skin+blood clock, PedBE clock and Wu's clock. Gestational DNAm age : Knight's clock, Bohlin's clock, Mayne's clock and Lee's clocks. Biological DNAm clocks : Levine's clock and Telomere Length's clock.

Authors:Dolors Pelegri-Siso [aut, cre], Juan R. Gonzalez [aut]

# Install 'methylclock' in R:

install.packages('methylclock', repos = c('https://bioc.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/isglobal-brge/methylclock/issues

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Datasets:

progress_data - PROGRESS cohor data
progress_vars - PROGRESS cohort variables

On BioConductor:methylclock-1.19.0(bioc 3.24)methylclock-1.18.0(bioc 3.23)

dnamethylation biologicalquestion preprocessing statisticalmethod normalization cpp

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Last updated from:0fec6e84d9. Checks:1 ERROR, 11 NOTE, 2 OK. Indexed: yes.

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Exports:checkClocks checkClocksGA commonClockCpgs DNAmAge DNAmGA getCellTypeReference load_DNAm_Clocks_data load_DNAmGA_Clocks_data meffilEstimateCellCountsFromBetas meffilListCellTypeReferences plotCorClocks plotDNAmAge

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Chronological and gestational DNAm age estimation using different methylation-based clocks

Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Bioinformatics Research Group in Epidemiolgy (BRGE) http://brge.isglobal.org

Rendered frommethylclock.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 30 2026.

Last update: 2022-07-11
Started: 2019-03-15

Help page	Topics
Check wheter input data contains the required CpGs for the implemented clocks.	checkClocks
Check wheter input data contains the required CpGs for the implemented clocks for Gestational Age.	checkClocksGA
Get common CpGs	commonClockCpgs
DNAm age estimation using different DNA methylation clocks.	DNAmAge
Gestational DNAm age estimation using different DNA methylation clocks.	DNAmGA
Get cell type reference	getCellTypeReference
Loads DNAm clock data from methylclockData	load_DNAm_Clocks_data
Loads DNAmGA clock data from methylclockData	load_DNAmGA_Clocks_data
Estimate cell counts for a beta matrix from a reference	meffilEstimateCellCountsFromBetas
List of available cell type references	meffilListCellTypeReferences
methylclock	methylclock
Plot correlation among DNAm clockx	plotCorClocks
Plot DNAm age estimation vs chronological age.	plotDNAmAge
PROGRESS cohor data	progress_data
PROGRESS cohort variables	progress_vars

Package: methylclock 1.19.0

methylclock: Methylclock - DNA methylation-based clocks

Chronological and gestational DNAm age estimation using different methylation-based clocks

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