sesame
Bioc currentSEnsible Step-wise Analysis of DNA MEthylation BeadChips
Release Lineage
Entered 3.8 · Oct 31, 2018
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
Tools For analyzing Illumina Infinium DNA methylation arrays. SeSAMe provides utilities to support analyses of multiple generations of Infinium DNA methylation BeadChips, including preprocessing, quality control, visualization and inference. SeSAMe features accurate detection calling, intelligent inference of ethnicity, sex and advanced quality control routines.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
190 100 exported
Complexity
2.9 avg / 16 max
Call network
190 nodes / 235 edges
Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.
Call graph
Open call graph →Lowest coverage
Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.
Code
Structure
Lines of code
11,639
Files
170
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
101
Internal functions
90
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
18.2%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
13.6%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
4.5.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
MIT + file LICENSE
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
16
First release
2018-10-30
Latest release
2026-06-27
Avg cadence
180 days
Cold removal rate
99.2%
Dep drift
30
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 115includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 94%97 run in a plain check · 6 never run
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 1%
- 4. Data Inference HTML
- 3. Modeling HTML
- 2. Non-human Array HTML
- 1. Quality Control HTML
- 0. Basic Usage HTML
Repository practices
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/zwdzwd/sesame on 2026-10-22.
Datasets
| Name | Class | Size | Also in |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSE36369_NonEBV_SignalA_SignalB_3samples_1k | data.frame | 1,000 × 7 | No other package |
Topics
Depended on by (4)
Bioconductor (4)
Suggested by (4)
People
- Wanding Zhou author maintainer funder
- Bret Barnes contributor
- Wubin Ding contributor
- David Goldberg contributor
- Ethan Moyer contributor
- Hui Shen author funder
- Timothy Triche contributor
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("sesame")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100929, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae423, 10.1093/nar/gkae127, 10.1093/bib/bbac617, 10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100144, 10.1093/nar/gky691, 10.1093/nar/gkt090.
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