How to cite the Bioconductor package muscle

muscle is a popular Bioconductor package that is available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/muscle. 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 muscle package have suggested.

Example of an in-text citation

Analysis of the data was done using the muscle package (v3.32.0; Edgar, 2004).

Reference list entry

Edgar, R. C. (2004). MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Research, 32(5), 1792–1797.

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 muscle package v3.32.0 (1).

Reference list entry

1.
Edgar RC. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Mar 8;32(5):1792–7.

BibTeX

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

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{Edgar2004-gt,
  title     = "{MUSCLE}: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and
               high throughput",
  author    = "Edgar, R C",
  journal   = "Nucleic Acids Res.",
  publisher = "Oxford University Press (OUP)",
  volume    =  32,
  number    =  5,
  pages     = "1792--1797",
  month     =  mar,
  year      =  2004,
  url       = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh340",
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "0305-1048, 1362-4962",
  doi       = "10.1093/nar/gkh340"
}

RIS

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

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Edgar, R C
TI  - MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput
T2  - Nucleic Acids Res.
VL  - 32
IS  - 5
SP  - 1792-1797
PY  - 2004
DA  - 2004/3/8
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
SN  - 0305-1048
DO  - 10.1093/nar/gkh340
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh340
ER  -

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