gcplyr: an R package for microbial growth curve data analysis

Background Characterization of microbial growth is of both fundamental and applied interest. Modern platforms can automate collection of high-throughput microbial growth curves, necessitating the development of computational tools to handle and analyze these data to produce insights. Results To addr...

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Vydáno v:BMC bioinformatics Ročník 25; číslo 1; s. 232 - 10
Hlavní autor: Blazanin, Michael
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London BioMed Central 09.07.2024
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Springer Nature B.V
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ISSN:1471-2105, 1471-2105
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Shrnutí:Background Characterization of microbial growth is of both fundamental and applied interest. Modern platforms can automate collection of high-throughput microbial growth curves, necessitating the development of computational tools to handle and analyze these data to produce insights. Results To address this need, here I present a newly-developed R package: gcplyr. gcplyr can flexibly import growth curve data in common tabular formats, and reshapes it under a tidy framework that is flexible and extendable, enabling users to design custom analyses or plot data with popular visualization packages. gcplyr can also incorporate metadata and generate or import experimental designs to merge with data. Finally, gcplyr carries out model-free (non-parametric) analyses. These analyses do not require mathematical assumptions about microbial growth dynamics, and gcplyr is able to extract a broad range of important traits, including growth rate, doubling time, lag time, maximum density and carrying capacity, diauxie, area under the curve, extinction time, and more. Conclusions gcplyr makes scripted analyses of growth curve data in R straightforward, streamlines common data wrangling and analysis steps, and easily integrates with common visualization and statistical analyses.
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ISSN:1471-2105
1471-2105
DOI:10.1186/s12859-024-05817-3