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DESeq2

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Differential gene expression analysis based on the negative binomial distribution

v1.52.0 · Package record · software · LGPL (>= 3)

Release Lineage

Entered 2.12 · Apr 4, 2013

Current · Requires R 4.6

1.0 In 27 of 49 releases 3.23

Description

Estimate variance-mean dependence in count data from high-throughput sequencing assays and test for differential expression based on a model using the negative binomial distribution.

Advisories

None published for Bioconductor

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

133 34 exported

Complexity

6.8 avg / 68 max

Call network

133 nodes / 214 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

17,052

Files

105

Compiled share

3.6%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 8,361 (49%)C/C++/src 607 (3.6%)Tests 1,555 (9.1%)Docs 3,145 (18.4%)Vignettes 3,384 (19.8%)

API

Exported functions

44

Internal functions

89

Recent export changes

v3.6+2 priorInfo<-, priorInfo
v3.5+2 lfcShrink, unmix

Testing

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.19

testthat edition

–

Docs

Roxygen coverage

100%

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

50%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

35.7%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

–

System requirements

–

C++ standard

–

License

LGPL (>= 3)

License flags

not SPDX, not OSI

History

Versions

27

First release

2013-08-14

Latest release

2026-04-28

Avg cadence

177 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

18

LOC over versions

v2.12: 4,041 LOCv2.13: 5,017 LOCv2.14: 11,500 LOCv3.0: 11,728 LOCv3.1: 13,394 LOCv3.2: 13,850 LOCv3.3: 13,346 LOCv3.4: 13,363 LOCv3.5: 13,942 LOCv3.6: 14,601 LOCv3.7: 15,294 LOCv3.8: 15,502 LOCv3.9: 15,571 LOCv3.10: 15,689 LOCv3.11: 16,085 LOCv3.12: 16,733 LOCv3.13: 16,816 LOCv3.14: 16,857 LOCv3.15: 16,857 LOCv3.16: 16,950 LOCv3.17: 16,988 LOCv3.18: 17,060 LOCv3.19: 17,076 LOCv3.20: 17,114 LOCv3.21: 17,134 LOCv3.22: 17,250 LOCv3.23: 17,052 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
READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
40includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%29 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
71%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
71%
Help pages citing references
23%

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thelovelab/deseq2 on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (2)
Code of conductContributing guide
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2
NameClassSizeAlso in
pasilla_gene_countsdata.frame14,599 × 82 packages
pasilla_sample_annotationdata.frame7 × 62 packages

All of DESeq2's data objects

Topics

Maintainer
Michael Love

Available on

CRANr2uBioconductorautoCRANCOPR

Depended on by (147)

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People

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("DESeq2")

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

It points to 10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8.

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 DESeq2 version 1.52.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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