maftools - An R package to summarize, analyze and visualize MAF files
Introduction
maftools provides a comprehensive set of functions for processing MAF files from cancer genomics studies. This package provides various functions to perform most commonly used analyses in cancer genomics. See here for a detailed usage and a case study.
Installation
#Install from Bioconductor repository
BiocManager::install("maftools")
#Install from GitHub repository
BiocManager::install("PoisonAlien/maftools")
Getting started: Vignette and a case study
A complete documentation of maftools using TCGA LAML as a case study can be found here.
Citation
Mayakonda A, Lin DC, Assenov Y, Plass C, Koeffler HP. 2018. Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in cancer. Genome Research. PMID: 30341162
Useful links
| File formats | Data Portals | Annotation tools |
|---|---|---|
| Mutation Annotation Format | TCGA | vcf2maf - for converting your VCF files to MAF |
| Variant Call Format | ICGC | Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor VEP |
| ICGC Simple Somatic Mutation Format | Broad Firehose | Annovar |
| cBioPortal | Funcotator | |
| CIViC - Clinical interpretation of variants in cancer | ||
| DGIdb - Information on drug-gene interactions and the druggable genome |
Similar packages/tools
Below are some more useful software packages for somatic variant analysis (not necessarily similar to maftools)
- TRONCO - Repository of the TRanslational ONCOlogy library (R)
- dndscv - dN/dS methods to quantify selection in cancer and somatic evolution (R)
- cloneevol - Inferring and visualizing clonal evolution in multi-sample cancer sequencing (R)
- sigminer - Primarily for signature analysis and visualization in R. Supports
maftoolsoutput (R) - GenVisR - Primarily for visualization (R)
- comut - Primarily for visualization (Python)
- TCGAmutations - pre-compiled curated somatic mutations from TCGA cohorts (from Broad Firehose and TCGA MC3 Project) that can be loaded into
maftools(R)