To cite the Patterns package in publications use:

Bertrand F, Maumy-Bertrand M (2025). Patterns: reverse engineering of biological networks with patterned expressions. R package version 1.6, https://github.com/fbertran/Patterns.

Bertrand F, Aouadi I, Jung N, Carapito R, Vallat L, Bahram S, Maumy-Bertrand M (2020). “Patterns: reverse engineering of biological networks with patterned expressions.” Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa855.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {Patterns: reverse engineering of biological networks with
      patterned expressions},
    author = {Frederic Bertrand and Myriam Maumy-Bertrand},
    year = {2025},
    note = {R package version 1.6},
    url = {https://github.com/fbertran/Patterns},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Patterns: reverse engineering of biological networks with
      patterned expressions},
    author = {F. Bertrand and I. Aouadi and N. Jung and R. Carapito and
      L. Vallat and S. Bahram and M. Maumy-Bertrand},
    year = {2020},
    journal = {Bioinformatics},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa855},
  }