# hermes

hermes facilitates preprocessing, analyzing, and reporting of RNA-seq data.

• Imports RNAseq count data into the hermes ready format.
• Annotates gene information automatically from a central database (e.g. BioMart).
• Adds quality control (QC) flags to genes and samples.
• Filters the data set.
• Normalizes the counts.
• Quickly produces descriptive plots.
• Performs principal components analysis.
• Produces a templated QC report.
• Performs differential expression analysis.

You can install the current release from BioConductor with:

if (!require("BiocManager")) {
  install.packages("BiocManager")
}
BiocManager::install("hermes")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

if (!require("devtools")) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}
devtools::install_github("insightsengineering/hermes")

You can get started by reading the introduction vignette:

library(hermes)
vignette("introduction", package = "hermes")