# parmigene
 
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This R package provides a parallel estimation of the mutual information based on entropy estimates from k-nearest neighbors distances and algorithms for the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks.

Find more details in the paper:

Gabriele Sales, Chiara Romualdi, _parmigene—a parallel R package for mutual information estimation and gene network reconstruction_, **Bioinformatics**, Volume 27, Issue 13, 1 July 2011, Pages 1876–1877, <https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr274>
