11/07/2026
Two open-source tools for anyone working in bioinformatics/network pharmacology
Hey everyone! Sharing two fully free, open-source pipelines I published recently (MIT licensed, DOI on Zenodo) - no course, no paywall, just documentation that anyone can use and adapt:
🌿 Network Pharmacology Cookbook (R) - full pipeline from raw GC-MS compound data to pre-docking candidate prioritization. Validated with plant extract data (Sphaeralcea angustifolia), but built to be adapted to any extract/disease of interest.
https://github.com/hierax00/network-pharmacology-cookbook
🧬 RNA-seq Analysis Cookbook for Bacteria - bacterial transcriptomics pipeline (QC → DESeq2 → functional annotation → network analysis), with specific notes for non-model organisms.
https://github.com/hierax00/rnaseq-bacteria-cookbook
Both are step-by-step on purpose - the goal is that someone with little prior experience can follow along and actually understand each decision, not just copy-paste code. Example data included so you can run everything end-to-end before plugging in your own.
I've been working in this space for a while now, so if you run into questions or get stuck on any step, feel free to reach out - happy to help.
Questions, critiques, and pull requests are all very welcome - genuinely trying to make these useful for whoever needs them 🙌
Reproducible R pipeline for network pharmacology analysis of plant extracts — from GC-MS data to pre-docking candidate prioritization - hierax00/network-pharmacology-cookbook