How to cite the Bioconductor package minet

minet is a popular Bioconductor package that is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/minet. By citing R packages in your paper you lay the grounds for others to be able to reproduce your analysis and secondly you are acknowledging the time and work people have spent creating the package.

APA citation

Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7^th edition. Simply copy it to the References page as is.

APA

The minimal requirement is to cite the R package in text along with the version number. Additionally, you can include the reference list entry the authors of the minet package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the minet package (v3.48.0; Meyer et al., 2008).

Reference list entry

Meyer, P. E., Lafitte, F., & Bontempi, G. (2008). MINET: An open source R/Bioconductor Package for Mutual Information based Network Inference. In BMC Bioinformatics (Vol. 9). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/461

Vancouver citation

Formatted according to Vancouver style. Simply copy it to the references section as is.

Vancouver

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the minet package v3.48.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Meyer PE, Lafitte F, Bontempi G. MINET: An open source R/Bioconductor Package for Mutual Information based Network Inference [Internet]. Vol. 9, BMC Bioinformatics. 2008. Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/461

BibTeX

Reference entry in BibTeX format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

BibTeX

@MISC{Meyer2008-ql,
  title   = "{MINET}: An open source {R/Bioconductor} Package for Mutual
             Information based Network Inference",
  author  = "Meyer, Patrick E and Lafitte, Frederic and Bontempi, Gianluca",
  journal = "BMC Bioinformatics",
  volume  =  9,
  year    =  2008,
  url     = "http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/461"
}

RIS

Reference entry in RIS format. Simply copy it to your favorite citation manager.

RIS

TY  - MISC
AU  - Meyer, Patrick E
AU  - Lafitte, Frederic
AU  - Bontempi, Gianluca
TI  - MINET: An open source R/Bioconductor Package for Mutual Information based
      Network Inference
T2  - BMC Bioinformatics
VL  - 9
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008
UR  - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/461
ER  -

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