Packages
444 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 |
| BiocGenerics S4 generic functions used in BioconductorHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 14 May 2026 | 74,574 | 5 |
| IRanges Foundation of integer range manipulation in BioconductorHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 68,817 | 8 |
| Biobase Biobase: Base functions for BioconductorBioconductor Package Maintainer | Bioconductor Package Maintainer | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 64,555 | 6 |
| XVector Foundation of external vector representation and manipulation in BioconductorHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 63,837 | 10 |
| BiocParallel Bioconductor facilities for parallel evaluationJiefei Wang | Jiefei Wang | software | 29 Apr 2026 | 59,780 | 12 |
| Biostrings Efficient manipulation of biological stringsHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 2 Sep 2026 | 58,962 | 14 |
| DelayedArray A unified framework for working transparently with on-disk and in-memory array-like datasetsHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 26 May 2026 | 57,500 | 20 |
| GenomicRanges Representation and manipulation of genomic intervalsHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 56,974 | 10 |
| SummarizedExperiment A container (S4 class) for matrix-like assaysHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 53,484 | 24 |
| AnnotationDbi Manipulation of SQLite-based annotations in BioconductorBioconductor Package Maintainer | Bioconductor Package Maintainer | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 47,941 | 41 |
| KEGGREST Client-side REST access to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)Bioconductor Package Maintainer | Bioconductor Package Maintainer | software | 18 Jun 2026 | 45,886 | 24 |
| GenomeInfoDb Utilities for manipulating chromosome names, including modifying them to follow a particular naming styleHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 37,356 | 20 |
| ggtree an R package for visualization of tree and annotation dataGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 29 Oct 2026 | 34,372 | 79 |
| DESeq2 Differential gene expression analysis based on the negative binomial distributionMichael Love | Michael Love | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 32,072 | 54 |
| treeio Base Classes and Functions for Phylogenetic Tree Input and OutputGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 30 Apr 2026 | 31,966 | 39 |
| enrichplot Visualization of Functional Enrichment ResultGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 28 Sep 2026 | 30,370 | 128 |
| Rsamtools Binary alignment (BAM), FASTA, variant call (BCF), and tabix file importBioconductor Package Maintainer | Bioconductor Package Maintainer | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 30,337 | 28 |
| clusterProfiler A Universal Enrichment Tool for Interpreting Omics DataGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 19 Oct 2026 | 29,661 | 138 |
| BiocFileCache Manage Files Across SessionsLori Shepherd | Lori Shepherd | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 29,416 | 41 |
| DOSE Disease Ontology Semantic and Enrichment analysisGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 28,873 | 77 |
| fgsea Fast Gene Set Enrichment AnalysisAlexey Sergushichev | Alexey Sergushichev | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 28,660 | 38 |
| Rhdf5lib hdf5 library as an R packageHugo Gruson | Hugo Gruson | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 28,654 | 5 |
| Rhtslib HTSlib high-throughput sequencing library as an R packageHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 28,083 | 1 |
| qvalue Q-value estimation for false discovery rate controlJohn D. Storey | John D. Storey | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 27,745 | 31 |
| rhdf5 R Interface to HDF5Hugo Gruson | Hugo Gruson | software | 14 Sep 2026 | 27,620 | 8 |
| GOSemSim GO-terms Semantic Similarity MeasuresGuangchuang Yu | Guangchuang Yu | software | 30 Jun 2026 | 27,495 | 48 |
| GenomicAlignments Representation and manipulation of short genomic alignmentsHervé Pagès | Hervé Pagès | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 27,006 | 41 |
| biomaRt Interface to BioMart databases (i.e. Ensembl)Hugo Gruson | Hugo Gruson | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 24,571 | 61 |
| ComplexHeatmap Make Complex HeatmapsZuguang Gu | Zuguang Gu | software | 28 Apr 2026 | 23,951 | 29 |