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Developer(s) | Ilias Lagkouvardos, Sandra Fischer, Neeraj Kumar, Thomas Clavel |
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Initial release | 16 November 2016 |
Stable release | 1.1.0
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Written in | R |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Linux, openSUSE |
License | MIT License |
Website | https://lagkouvardos.github.io/Rhea/ |
Rhea[1] is a bioinformatic pipeline written in R language for the analysis of microbial profiles. It was released during the end of 2016 and it is publicly available through a GitHub repository.[2]
Starting with an Operational taxonomic unit (OTU) table, the pipeline contains scripts that perform the following common analytical steps:
The name Rhea was primarily given to the pipeline as a phonetic and visual link to the R language used throughout development. Moreover, as stated in the original publication,[1] the name was chosen to reflect the flowing and evolving nature of the scripts, as "flow" is one of the suggested etymology of the name of the mythological goddess Rhea.