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Software

The Girke lab develops open-source software for data-intensive research in genome biology, chemical genomics, and bioinformatics. The repositories below highlight selected tools for drug discovery, spatial omics visualization, and scalable workflow-based analysis.

Drug Discovery and Chemical Informatics

This area includes software for chemical similarity searching, bioactivity analysis, compound-target mapping, and related cheminformatics applications in small-molecule discovery.

signatureSearch

Tools for gene expression signature analysis and the discovery of related perturbagens, compounds, and biological mechanisms, with companion data resources provided through the associated signatureSearchData package.

Drug Discovery Transcriptomics R

Bioconductor GitHub

drugTargetInteractions

Software for identifying and analyzing compound-target interaction relationships in support of computational drug discovery.

Drug Discovery Targets Bioactivity

Bioconductor GitHub

bioassayR

Infrastructure for storing, querying, and analyzing large bioassay datasets within the R environment.

Bioactivity Database R

Bioconductor GitHub

ChemmineR

Cheminformatics toolkit for compound similarity analysis, clustering, visualization, and structure-based data mining in R.

Cheminformatics R Visualization

Bioconductor GitHub

ChemmineOB

Interface connecting ChemmineR workflows to Open Babel functionality for broader structure processing and cheminformatics tasks.

Cheminformatics Open Babel R

Bioconductor GitHub

fmcsR

Tools for fast maximum common substructure analysis to support compound comparison and chemical similarity workflows.

Cheminformatics Similarity R

Bioconductor GitHub

eiR

Software for structure-based compound similarity and search workflows using atom environment descriptors.

Cheminformatics Similarity Search R

Bioconductor GitHub

Spatial Omics Visualization

This software area focuses on interactive and publication-oriented visualization methods for spatially resolved omics datasets.

spatialHeatmap

Visualization toolkit for exploring spatially resolved omics data in anatomical and tissue-based contexts.

Spatial Omics Visualization R

Bioconductor GitHub Website

Large-Scale Data Analysis Workflows

These repositories provide scalable workflow infrastructure for reproducible analysis of large omics datasets across local, server, and high-performance computing environments.

systemPipeR

Workflow management environment for designing, running, monitoring, and documenting reproducible omics analysis pipelines.

Workflow Omics Bioconductor R

Bioconductor GitHub Docs

systemPipeRdata

Companion package providing workflow templates, example datasets, and supporting resources for systemPipeR-based analyses.

Workflow Data Package Bioconductor

Bioconductor GitHub Docs

systemPipeShiny

Web-based interface for interactive execution, management, and monitoring of systemPipeR workflows.

Workflow Shiny R

Bioconductor GitHub Docs

Workflow Templates

Collection of reusable workflow templates for common omics applications, designed to support reproducible and scalable data analysis with systemPipeR.

Templates Omics Reproducibility

Overview GitHub

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