BIDistances: Bioinformatic Distances
Provides a unified interface for computing, comparing, and
examining distances, dissimilarities, divergences, and selected
similarities for bioinformatics data. The core installation exposes 60
canonical named routes for numerical data and more than 90 when the
suggested 'philentropy' backend is installed; aliases, user-defined
functions, and mixed-data combinations are not included in these counts.
Weighted Minkowski distances can be computed through 'parallelDist', an
internal multicore implementation, or optional 'OpenCL' kernels, while the
established weighted Euclidean GPU implementation is retained as the
optimized p = 2 route. The package also supports theory-guided comparison
of distance distributions for clustering, explicit mathematical property
classifications, mixed-data constructions through 'manydist', and a
specialized Gene Ontology-derived TF-IDF distance.
| Version: |
1.0.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: |
Rcpp (≥ 1.0.8), RcppParallel (≥ 5.1.1), parallelDist, parallel, DataVisualizations, diptest, e1071, pracma, ggplot2 |
| LinkingTo: |
Rcpp, RcppParallel (≥ 5.1.1) |
| Suggests: |
knitr, rmarkdown, OpenCL, transport, ineq, ScatterDensity, memshare, philentropy (≥ 0.10.0), dtw, proxy, manydist (≥
0.5.0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-08-19 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.BIDistances |
| Author: |
Quirin Stier 
[aut, rev, ctb],
Michael Thrun
[aut, cre],
Luca Brinkmann [ctb] |
| Maintainer: |
Michael Thrun <m.thrun at gmx.net> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/Mthrun/BIDistances/issues |
| License: |
GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| SystemRequirements: |
GNU make, OpenCL library (optional, for GPU
acceleration), pandoc (>=1.12.3, needed for vignettes) |
| Citation: |
BIDistances citation info |
| Materials: |
README |
| CRAN checks: |
BIDistances results |
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