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.

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