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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'BIDistances: Bioinformatic Distances'
version: 1.0.1
doi: 10.1142/S1469026821500164
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BIDistances
abstract: Provides a unified interface for computing, comparing, and examining distances,
  dissimilarities, divergences, and selected similarities for bioinformatics data.
  The core installation exposes 60 canonical named routes for numerical data and more
  than 90 when the suggested 'philentropy' backend is installed; aliases, user-defined
  functions, and mixed-data combinations are not included in these counts. Weighted
  Minkowski distances can be computed through 'parallelDist', an internal multicore
  implementation, or optional 'OpenCL' kernels, while the established weighted Euclidean
  GPU implementation is retained as the optimized p = 2 route. The package also supports
  theory-guided comparison of distance distributions for clustering, explicit mathematical
  property classifications, mixed-data constructions through 'manydist', and a specialized
  Gene Ontology-derived TF-IDF distance.
authors:
- family-names: Stier
  given-names: Quirin
  email: Quirin_Stier@gmx.de
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7896-4737
- family-names: Thrun
  given-names: Michael
  email: m.thrun@gmx.net
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-5543
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: The Exploitation of Distance Distributions for Clustering
  authors:
  - family-names: Thrun
    given-names: Michael Christoph
  journal: International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
  volume: '20'
  issue: '3'
  year: '2021'
  doi: 10.1142/S1469026821500164
  start: '2150016'
repository: https://mthrun.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/Mthrun/BIDistances
commit: 9d423a51a09a2330ad262d7fdc1116a559c9502a
url: https://github.com/Mthrun/BIDistances
date-released: '2026-08-19'
contact:
- family-names: Thrun
  given-names: Michael
  email: m.thrun@gmx.net
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9542-5543
references:
- type: article
  title: Deriving Homogeneous Subsets from Gene Sets by Exploiting the Gene Ontology
  authors:
  - family-names: Stier
    given-names: Quirin
  - family-names: Thrun
    given-names: Michael C.
  journal: Informatica
  volume: '34'
  issue: '2'
  year: '2023'
  doi: 10.15388/23-INFOR517
  start: '357'
  end: '386'