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ACE

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Absolute Copy Number Estimation from Low-coverage Whole Genome Sequencing

v1.30.0 · software · GPL-2

Release Lineage

Entered 3.8 · Oct 31, 2018

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 16 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Uses segmented copy number data to estimate tumor cell percentage and produce copy number plots displaying absolute copy numbers.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

21 20 exported

Complexity

18.8 avg / 71 max

Call network

21 nodes / 21 edges

Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

3,828

Files

29

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 2,126 (55.5%)Docs 1,259 (32.9%)Vignettes 443 (11.6%)

API

Exported functions

20

Internal functions

1

Recent export changes

v3.9+1 forcesegmentsontemplate
v3.8+19 runACE, ploidyplotloop, singlemodel +16 more

Testing

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

–

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.4

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

16

First release

2018-10-30

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

182 days

Cold removal rate

–

Dep drift

1

LOC over versions

v3.8: 3,453 LOCv3.9: 3,591 LOCv3.10: 3,591 LOCv3.11: 3,593 LOCv3.12: 3,593 LOCv3.13: 3,825 LOCv3.14: 3,825 LOCv3.15: 3,825 LOCv3.16: 3,825 LOCv3.17: 3,825 LOCv3.18: 3,825 LOCv3.19: 3,825 LOCv3.20: 3,825 LOCv3.21: 3,825 LOCv3.22: 3,828 LOCv3.23: 3,828 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.

Documentation

In the Bioconductor 3.23 release
READMEYes · 1,696 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
20includes a package overview page
Examples that run
89%16 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples
94%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%
Vignettes (1)

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/tgac-vumc/ace on 2026-10-11.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1
NameClassSizeAlso in
copyNumbersSegmented–––

All of ACE's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Jos B Poell

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

People (from the free-text Author field)

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ACE")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1055.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ACE version 1.30.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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