Utilities dedicated to the analysis of
        biological sequences by metric MultiDimensional Scaling with
        projection of supplementary data. It contains functions for
        reading multiple sequence alignment files, calculating distance
        matrices, performing metric multidimensional scaling and
        visualizing results.

Provides tools for the calculation of common biodiversity indices from count data. Additionally, it incorporates bootstrapping techniques to generate multiple samples, facilitating the estimation of confidence intervals around these indices. Furthermore, the package allows for the exploration of how variation in these indices changes with differing numbers of sites, making it a useful tool with which to begin an ecological analysis. Methods are based on the following references: Chao et al. (2014) <doi:10.1890/13-0133.1>, Chao and Colwell (2022) <doi:10.1002/9781119902911.ch2>, Hsieh, Ma,` and Chao (2016) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12613>.

Unified and user-friendly framework for using new 
             distributional representations of biosensors data in different statistical modeling 
             tasks: regression models, hypothesis testing, cluster analysis, visualization, and 
             descriptive analysis. Distributional representations are a functional extension of 
             compositional time-range metrics and we have used them successfully so far in modeling 
             glucose profiles and accelerometer data. However, these functional representations can 
             be used to represent any biosensor data such as ECG or medical imaging such as fMRI.
             Matabuena M, Petersen A, Vidal JC, Gude F. "Glucodensities: A new representation of 
             glucose profiles using distributional data analysis" (2021) 
             <doi:10.1177/0962280221998064>.

Classes and functions to work with biological sequences (DNA, RNA and amino acid sequences).
    Implements S3 infrastructure to work with biological sequences as described in Keck (2020) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13490>.
    Provides a collection of functions to perform biological conversion among classes
    (transcription, translation) and basic operations on sequences
    (detection, selection and replacement based on positions or patterns).
    The package also provides functions to import and export sequences from and to other package formats.