MetaCycle: an integrated R package to evaluate periodicity in large scale data

Abstract

SummaryDetecting periodicity in large scale data remains a challenge. Different algorithms offer strengths and weaknesses in statistical power, sensitivity to outliers, ease of use, and sampling requirements. While efforts have been made to identify best of breed algorithms, relatively little research has gone into integrating these methods in a generalizable method. Here we present MetaCycle, an R package that incorporates ARSER, JTK_CYCLE, and Lomb-Scargle to conveniently evaluate periodicity in time-series data.\n\nAvailability and implementationMetaCycle package is available on the CRAN repository (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MetaCycle/index.html) and GitHub (https://github.com/gangwug/MetaCycle).\n\nContacthogenesch@gmail.com\n\nSupplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.