Changes in version 1.8.2 - Uniform first-letter capitalization for Body site and Condition terms Changes in version 1.2.0 - importBugSigDB accepts Zenodo DOIs and Github hashes to obtain defined data releases or devel to obtain the latest version (new argument version). - Ontology-based queries for experimental factors and body sites (new functions getOntology and subsetByOntologies) - Compilation of meta-signatures from individual signatures for one body site and one condition at a time, weighted by sample size (new function getMetaSignatures) Changes in version 1.0.0 - released in Bioconductor 3.14! New features - importBugSigDB: Obtain published microbial signatures from bugsigdb.org - getSignatures: Obtain microbe signatures from BugSigDB - restrictTaxLevel: Restrict microbe signatures to specific taxonomic levels - extractTaxLevel: Extract specific taxonomic levels from a microbe signature - writeGMT: Write microbe signatures to file in GMT format - browseSignature: Displaying BugSigDB signatures pages in a web browser - browseTaxon: Displaying BugSigDB taxon pages in a web browser