CoSIA: an R Bioconductor package for CrOss Species Investigation and Analysis

Summary High throughput sequencing technologies have enabled cross-species comparative transcriptomic studies; however, there are numerous challenges for these studies due to biological and technical factors. We developed CoSIA (Cross-Species Investigation and Analysis), an Bioconductor R package and Shiny app that provides an alternative framework for cross-species transcriptomic comparison of non-diseased wild-type RNA sequencing gene expression data from Bgee across tissues and species (human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, fly, and nematode) through visualization of variability, diversity, and specificity metrics. Availability and Implementation https://github.com/lasseignelab/CoSIA Contact Brittany Lasseigne ( [email protected] ) Supplementary information See Supplementary Files