Is used to simulate and fit biological geometries. 'biogeom' incorporates several novel universal parametric equations that can generate the profiles of bird eggs, flowers, linear and lanceolate leaves, seeds, starfish, and tree-rings (Gielis (2003) <doi:10.3732/ajb.90.3.333>; Shi et al. (2020) <doi:10.3390/sym12040645>), three growth-rate curves representing the ontogenetic growth trajectories of animals and plants against time, and the axially symmetrical and integral forms of all these functions (Shi et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.01.012>; Shi et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/sym13081524>). The optimization method proposed by Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308> was used to estimate model parameters. 'biogeom' includes several real data sets of the boundary coordinates of natural shapes, including avian eggs, fruit, lanceolate and ovate leaves, tree rings, seeds, and sea stars,and can be potentially applied to other natural shapes. 'biogeom' can quantify the conspecific or interspecific similarity of natural outlines, and provides information with important ecological and evolutionary implications for the growth and form of living organisms. Please see Shi et al. (2022) <doi:10.1111/nyas.14862> for details.

Tools for extraction and analysis of various
    n-grams (k-mers) derived from biological sequences (proteins
    or nucleic acids). Contains QuiPT (quick permutation test) for fast
    feature-filtering of the n-gram data.

Modelling of population growth under static and dynamic environmental conditions. 
    Includes functions for model fitting and making prediction under isothermal and 
    dynamic conditions. The methods (algorithms & models) are based on
    predictive microbiology (See Perez-Rodriguez and Valero (2012, ISBN:978-1-4614-5519-6)).

Implementation of Graph Signal Processing (GSP) methods including Spectral 
    Graph Wavelet Transform (SGWT) for analyzing spatial patterns in biological data. 
    Based on Hammond, Vandergheynst, and Gribonval (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.acha.2010.04.005>. Provides tools for multi-scale analysis of biology spatial signals, including forward and inverse transforms, energy analysis, and visualization functions tailored for biological applications. Biological application example is on Stephanie, Yao, Yuzhou (2024) <doi:10.1101/2024.12.20.629650>.