*ribiosUtils*: Swiss-army knife for computational biology tasks in drug discovery
===

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## Introduction

*ribiosUtils* is a R package that performs various routine tasks for
bioinformatics and computational biology research in drug discovery. It is
distributed under the GPL-3 license.

## Installation

### Install the devel version from GitHub

Run following commands in the R console.

```{R}
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("bedapub/ribiosUtils")
```

### Install the stable version on CRAN

*The CRAN version is temporarily not available due to pending changes*.

```r
install.packages("ribiosUtils")
```

## History

*ribiosUtils* is part of the *ribios* software suite (*ribios* stands for *R* *i*nterface to *BIOS*). It started as a R implementation of the BIOS library, publicly known as Bioinfo-C library, developed by Clemens Broger *et al.* at F. Hoffmann-La Roche for many years. Since its inception in 2012, many functionalities have been added, which are implemented in either C (or C++) or R.

[Jitao David Zhang](mailto:jitao_david.zhang@roche.com) maintains and develops *ribiosUtils* and other ribios packages. The work is dedicated to the memory of Clemens Broger, a pioneer of bioinformatics and cheminformatics in drug discovery, a man true to himself.
