# 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.

Installation

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")

Getting Started

You can get started by reading the introduction vignette:

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