Welcome to dcaf’s documentation!
Overview
dcaf is a Python package containing various bioinformatics code
developed in the Wren Lab at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
This package contains code and scripts for various bioinformatics tasks:
- Wrappers for sequence and variant analysis, principally RNA-seq
- Tools for managing a PostgreSQL database of taxon, gene, expression,
ontology, and textual (MEDLINE) data
- Readers for various bioinformatics file formats, including OBO,
SOFT, and BBI (BigWig/BigBED)
- Text mining, enrichment analysis, and other aspects of expression
analysis
- Meta-analysis of gene expression data, including gene
function prediction and imputation of experimental sample parameters
such as tissue, age, and gender
The principal developers are Cory Giles
and Mikhail Dozmorov.