The splitTypeR package provides an automated statistical framework to classify heterogeneous biological samples using gene signature lists, effectively isolating signature-positive samples. This classification method is designed for bulk transcriptomic datasets.
If you use this package for a publication, we would ask you to cite the following:
Deschênes A, Belleau P, Tuveson DA (2026). splitTypeR: Transcriptomic Classification using Mixture of Normal Distributions. R package version 0.99.9, https://github.com/adeschen/splitTypeR.
Astrid Deschênes, Pascal Belleau and David A. Tuveson
This package and the underlying splitTypeR code are distributed under the Artistic license 2.0. You are free to use and redistribute this software.
For more information on Artistic 2.0 License see http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
The splitTypeR logo is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The logo and the code used to create it are available in the splitTypeR_logo repository.
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