Package: synapsis Type: Package Title: An R package to automate the analysis of double-strand break repair during meiosis Version: 1.19.0 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Lucy", family = "McNeill", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "luc.mcneill@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1752-4882")), person(given = "Wayne", family = "Crismani", role = c("rev", "ctb"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0143-8293"))) Description: Synapsis is a Bioconductor software package for automated (unbiased and reproducible) analysis of meiotic immunofluorescence datasets. The primary functions of the software can i) identify cells in meiotic prophase that are labelled by a synaptonemal complex axis or central element protein, ii) isolate individual synaptonemal complexes and measure their physical length, iii) quantify foci and co-localise them with synaptonemal complexes, iv) measure interference between synaptonemal complex-associated foci. The software has applications that extend to multiple species and to the analysis of other proteins that label meiotic prophase chromosomes. The software converts meiotic immunofluorescence images into R data frames that are compatible with machine learning methods. Given a set of microscopy images of meiotic spread slides, synapsis crops images around individual single cells, counts colocalising foci on strands on a per cell basis, and measures the distance between foci on any given strand. biocViews: Software, SingleCell Depends: R (>= 4.1) Imports: EBImage, stats, utils, graphics License: MIT + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 RoxygenNote: 7.1.1 VignetteBuilder: knitr Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), ggplot2, tidyverse, BiocStyle Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libfftw3-dev make libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libuv1-dev Repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 12:57:20 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/synapsis RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 9930dc1dc939af0c1399393d5aa62839f00da424 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-04 22:44:57 UTC; root Author: Lucy McNeill [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: ), Wayne Crismani [rev, ctb] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Lucy McNeill