computeVPC.CP           Calculate the compound Poisson (CP) variance
                        partition coefficient (VPC) for one or more
                        features.
computeVPC.NB           Calculate the negative binomial (NB) variance
                        partition coefficient (VPC) for one or more
                        features.
fit.CP                  Fit compound Poisson mixed effect models (CPMM)
                        for one or more features.
fit.NB                  Fit negative binomial mixed models (NBMM) for
                        one or more features.
fitComputeVPC.lmer      Fit linear mixed models (LMM) and compute the
                        VPC values for one or more features.
getBootCI               Compute variance partition coefficition (VPC)
                        confidence intervals (CI) for one or more
                        features.
getReadMatrix.CP        Simulate a read matrix from compound Poisson
                        mixed effect models (CPMM).
getReadMatrix.NB        Simulate a count matrix from negative binomial
                        mixed effect models (NBMM).
para_cp                 Parameter matrix obtained from simData by
                        fitting CPMM.
para_nb                 Parameter matrix obtained from simData by
                        fitting NBMM.
simData                 A simulated sequencing dataset.
simData_voom            Voom transformed version of simData.
simData_vst             Variance stabilize transformed version of
                        simData.
strains                 List of strain names for the samples.
weights_voom            Weights used in the voom transformation.
