bistro: bloodmeal identification by STR overlap

Functions to allow for the identification of matches between bloodmeals and the people they bit using short tandem repeat (STR) profiles of human blood from freshly fed bloodmeals and from people.

Manuscript

bistro: An R package for vector bloodmeal identification by short tandem repeat overlap.
Lapp Z, Abel L, Mangeni J, Obala AA, O'Meara WP, Taylor SM, Markwalter CF.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2024 Feb;15(2):308-16.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14277

Installation

You can install bistro like so:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("duke-malaria-collaboratory/bistro")

Dependencies:

• Depends: R (>= 4.0.0), euroformix (>= 4.0.7)
• Imports: codetools (>= 0.2.19), dplyr (>= 1.1.3), R.utils (>= 2.12.2), stringr (>= 1.5.0), tibble (>= 3.2.1), tidyr (>= 1.3.0)
• Suggests: knitr (>= 1.43), readr (>= 2.1.4), rmarkdown (>= 2.24), testthat (>= 3.2.0)

Usage

Check out the vignette for more information.

Have questions or need help troubleshooting?

Open up an issue on our GitHub page or contact us (Christine: [email protected], Zena: [email protected]) and we can help out.