mSigSpectra: Build Mutational-Spectrum Catalogs from Variant Call Format Files

Reads variant call format (VCF) files in a caller-agnostic way, annotates variants with flanking sequence context and transcriptional strand, and builds mutational-spectrum catalogs of single base substitutions (SBS), doublet base substitutions (DBS), and small insertions and deletions (indels, ID) at several resolutions (SBS96, SBS192, SBS1536, DBS78, DBS136, DBS144, ID83, ID89, ID166, ID476) and in both counts and density representations. Successor to the numerical core of the 'ICAMS' package with plotting, 'shiny', and portable document format (PDF) reporting removed; plotting is provided separately by 'mSigPlot'. Used in the preparation of Rozen et al. (2026) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.18451842>.

Version: 0.1.3
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: BSgenome, data.table, fastrc, GenomeInfoDb, GenomicRanges, IRanges, Rcpp, S4Vectors, stats, stringi, tools
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: BSgenome.Hsapiens.1000genomes.hs37d5, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38, BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10, knitr, mSigPlot, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-09-27
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.mSigSpectra (may not be active yet)
Author: Steve Rozen [aut, cre], Nanhai Jiang [aut], Arnoud Boot [aut], Mo Liu [aut], Yang Wu [aut], Mi Ni Huang [aut], Jia Geng Chang [aut]
Maintainer: Steve Rozen <steverozen at pm.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/steverozen/mSigSpectra/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/steverozen/mSigSpectra, https://steverozen.github.io/mSigSpectra/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: mSigSpectra results

Documentation:

Reference manual: mSigSpectra.html , mSigSpectra.pdf
Vignettes: Reading VCFs and Building Mutational-Spectrum Catalogs (source, R code)

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Package source: mSigSpectra_0.1.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
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