Packages
185 packages on Bioconductor, most distinct IPs first
| Package | Maintainer | Category | Latest version | Distinct IPs a month | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S4Vectors Foundation of vector-like and list-like containers in BioconductorHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 16 Sep 2026 | 74,754 | 7 |
| SummarizedExperiment A container (S4 class) for matrix-like assaysHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 53,484 | 24 |
| SingleCellExperiment S4 Classes for Single Cell DataDavide Risso | Davide Risso | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 24,483 | 25 |
| scater Single-Cell Analysis Toolkit for Gene Expression Data in RAlan O'Callaghan | Alan O'Callaghan | software | 2 Jul 2026 | 12,635 | 78 |
| sva Surrogate Variable AnalysisJeffrey T. Leek | Jeffrey T. Leek | software | 5 May 2026 | 10,804 | 68 |
| scran Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data AnalysisAaron Lun | Aaron Lun | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 10,139 | 62 |
| ShortRead FASTQ input and manipulationBioconductor Package Maintainer | Bioconductor Package Maintainer | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 8,126 | 53 |
| siggenes Multiple Testing using SAM and Efron's Empirical Bayes ApproachesHolger Schwender | Holger Schwender | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 4,901 | 17 |
| seqLogo Sequence logos for DNA sequence alignmentsRobert Ivanek | Robert Ivanek | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 4,602 | 4 |
| STRINGdb STRINGdb - Protein-Protein Interaction Networks and Functional Enrichment AnalysisDamian Szklarczyk | Damian Szklarczyk | software | 27 Oct 2026 | 4,459 | 49 |
| snpStats SnpMatrix and XSnpMatrix classes and methodsDavid Clayton | David Clayton | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 3,488 | 12 |
| SNPRelate Parallel Computing Toolset for Relatedness and Principal Component Analysis of SNP DataXiuwen Zheng | Xiuwen Zheng | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 2,810 | 3 |
| systemPipeR systemPipeR: A Multipurpose Workflow Management System for Reproducible Data AnalysisThomas Girke | Thomas Girke | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 2,506 | 94 |
| survcomp Performance Assessment and Comparison for Survival AnalysisBenjamin Haibe-Kains | Benjamin Haibe-Kains | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 2,383 | 55 |
| scRNAseq Collection of Public Single-Cell RNA-Seq DatasetsAaron Lun | Aaron Lun | experiment | 5 May 2026 | 2,314 | 121 |
| SeqArray Data management of large-scale whole-genome sequence variant calls using GDS filesXiuwen Zheng | Xiuwen Zheng | software | 31 May 2026 | 1,955 | 19 |
| SPIA Signaling Pathway Impact Analysis (SPIA) using combined evidence of pathway over-representation and unusual signaling perturbationsAdi Laurentiu Tarca | Adi Laurentiu Tarca | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,839 | 15 |
| seqPattern Visualising oligonucleotide patterns and motif occurrences across a set of sorted sequencesVanja Haberle | Vanja Haberle | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,808 | 18 |
| safe Significance Analysis of Function and ExpressionLudwig Geistlinger | Ludwig Geistlinger | software | 3 May 2026 | 1,595 | 43 |
| splatter Simple Simulation of Single-cell RNA Sequencing DataLuke Zappia | Luke Zappia | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,553 | 61 |
| sangerseqR Tools for Sanger Sequencing Data in RJonathon Hill | Jonathon Hill | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,452 | 49 |
| SeqVarTools Tools for variant dataStephanie M. Gogarten | Stephanie M. Gogarten | software | 12 Jul 2026 | 1,420 | 89 |
| SC3 Single-Cell Consensus ClusteringVladimir Kiselev | Vladimir Kiselev | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,368 | 92 |
| scmap A tool for unsupervised projection of single cell RNA-seq dataVladimir Kiselev | Vladimir Kiselev | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,270 | 62 |
| SNPhood SNPhood: Investigate, quantify and visualise the epigenomic neighbourhood of SNPs using NGS dataChristian Arnold | Christian Arnold | software | 4 Nov 2025 | 1,253 | 103 |
| SRAdb A compilation of metadata from NCBI SRA and toolsJack Zhu | Jack Zhu | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,236 | 29 |
| SGSeq Splice event prediction and quantification from RNA-seq dataLeonard Goldstein | Leonard Goldstein | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,227 | 80 |
| STATegRa Classes and methods for multi-omics data integrationDavid Gomez-Cabrero | David Gomez-Cabrero | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,187 | 46 |
| scde Single Cell Differential ExpressionEvan Biederstedt | Evan Biederstedt | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,179 | 50 |
| segmentSeq Methods for identifying small RNA loci from high-throughput sequencing dataSamuel Granjeaud | Samuel Granjeaud | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 1,170 | 59 |