BRCore: Unified Framework for Identification and Ecological Interpretation of Microbial Data from Bioenergy Research Centers

A unified framework for identification and ecological interpretation of core microbiomes across time and space, enhancing robustness and reproducibility in microbiome data analysis. BRCore implements the workflow proposed by Shade and Stopnisek (2019) and incorporates additional rarefaction steps. The proposed workflow aims to identify persistent microbiomes using abundance-occupancy distributions and neutral community model fitting. For more details on abundance-occupancy distributions see Shade A, Stopnisek N (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.mib.2019.09.008>, for neutral models, see Sloan et al. (2006) <doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00956.x> and Burns et al. (2015) <doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.142>.

Version: 2.0.4
Depends: R (≥ 4.4)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.6.5), dplyr (≥ 1.1.4), ggplot2 (≥ 4.0.1), ggpubr (≥ 0.6.2), ggrepel (≥ 0.9.6), Hmisc (≥ 5.2.4), magrittr (≥ 2.0.4), minpack.lm (≥ 1.2.4), phyloseq (≥ 1.54.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.6), scales (≥ 1.4.0), stats4 (≥ 4.5.2), tibble (≥ 3.3.0), tidyr (≥ 1.3.1), vegan (≥ 2.7.2)
Suggests: devtools (≥ 2.4.5), here (≥ 1.0.1), knitr (≥ 1.50), rmarkdown (≥ 2.30), testthat (≥ 3.2.3), tidyverse (≥ 2.0.0), viridis (≥ 0.6.5)
Published: 2026-05-05
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BRCore (may not be active yet)
Author: Bolívar Aponte Rolón ORCID iD [aut, cre], Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci ORCID iD [aut] (Co-maintainer), Brandon Kristy ORCID iD [aut], Ashley Shade ORCID iD [aut], Nejc Stopnisek ORCID iD [aut], Adina Howe ORCID iD [aut], Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation [cph, fnd], Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Bolívar Aponte Rolón <bolaponte at pm.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/germs-lab/BRCore/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/germs-lab/BRCore, https://www.germslab.org/BRCore/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README
CRAN checks: BRCore results

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Package source: BRCore_2.0.4.tar.gz
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macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): BRCore_2.0.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): BRCore_2.0.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): BRCore_2.0.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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