Tools for 3D imaging, mostly for biology/microscopy. 
    Read and write TIFF stacks. Functions for segmentation, filtering and analyzing 3D point patterns.

Functions for modelling microbial inactivation under
    isothermal or dynamic conditions. The calculations are based on several mathematical models broadly
    used by the scientific community and industry. Functions enable to make predictions for cases where the
    kinetic parameters are known. It also implements functions for parameter estimation for isothermal and
    dynamic conditions. The model fitting capabilities include an Adaptive Monte Carlo method for a Bayesian
    approach to parameter estimation.

Analyze and plot the abundance of different RNA biotypes present in a count matrix, this evaluation can be useful if you want to test different strategies of normalization or analyze a particular biotype in a differential gene expression analysis.

Generate urls and hyperlinks to commonly used biological databases
    and resources based on standard identifiers. This is primarily useful when
    writing dynamic reports that reference things like gene symbols in text or
    tables, allowing you to, for example, convert gene identifiers to hyperlinks
    pointing to their entry in the 'NCBI' Gene database. Currently supports
    'NCBI' Gene, 'PubMed', Gene Ontology, 'KEGG', CRAN and Bioconductor.

Variable selection methods are provided for several classification methods: the lasso/elastic net, PCLDA, PLSDA, and several t-tests. Two approaches for selecting cutoffs can be used, one based on the stability of model coefficients under perturbation, and the other on higher criticism.

Perform large scale genomic data retrieval and functional annotation retrieval. This package aims to provide users with a standardized
                way to automate genome, proteome, 'RNA', coding sequence ('CDS'), 'GFF', and metagenome
                retrieval from 'NCBI RefSeq', 'NCBI Genbank', 'ENSEMBL', 
                and 'UniProt' databases. Furthermore, an interface to the 'BioMart' database
                (Smedley et al. (2009) <doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-22>) allows users to retrieve
                functional annotation for genomic loci. In addition, users can download entire databases such
                as 'NCBI RefSeq' (Pruitt et al. (2007) <doi:10.1093/nar/gkl842>), 'NCBI nr',
                'NCBI nt', 'NCBI Genbank' (Benson et al. (2013) <doi:10.1093/nar/gks1195>), etc. with only one command.