The provided benchmark suite enables the automated evaluation and comparison of any existing and novel indirect method for reference interval ('RI') estimation in a systematic way.
	Indirect methods take routine measurements of diagnostic tests, containing pathological and non-pathological samples as input and use sophisticated
	statistical methods to derive a model describing the distribution of the non-pathological samples, which can then be 
	used to derive reference intervals. The benchmark suite contains 5,760 simulated test sets with varying difficulty.
	To include any indirect method, a custom wrapper function needs to be provided. 
	The package offers functions for generating the test sets, executing the indirect method and evaluating the results.
	See ?RIbench or vignette("RIbench_package") for a more comprehensive description of the features. 
	A detailed description and application is described in Ammer T., Schuetzenmeister A., Prokosch H.-U., Zierk J., Rank C.M., Rauh M. "RIbench: A Proposed Benchmark for the Standardized Evaluation of Indirect Methods for Reference Interval Estimation". Clinical Chemistry (2022) <doi:10.1093/clinchem/hvac142>.

Gene annotation of rice (Oryza Sativa L.spp.japonica).
    The package is based on the annotation file from the website <http://plants.ensembl.org/Oryza_sativa/Info/Index>. 
    Input gene's name then return some information, including the from position, the end position, 
    the position type and the chromosome number.

Convert one biological ID to another of rice (Oryza sativa).
    Rice(Oryza sativa) has more than one form gene ID for the genome. 
    The two main gene ID for rice genome are  the RAP (The Rice Annotation Project, <https://rapdb.dna.affrc.go.jp/>, 
    and the MSU(The Rice Genome Annotation Project, <http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/>.
    All RAP rice gene IDs are of the form Os##g####### as explained on the website <https://rapdb.dna.affrc.go.jp/>.
    All MSU rice gene IDs are of the form LOC_Os##g##### as explained on the website <http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/analyses_nomenclature.shtml>.
    All SYMBOL rice gene IDs are the unique name on the NCBI(National Center for Biotechnology Information, <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>.
    The TRANSCRIPTID, is the transcript id of rice, are of the form Os##t#######.
    The researchers usually need to converter between various IDs. Such as converter RAP to SYMBOLS for function searching on NCBI.
    There are a lot of websites with the function for converting RAP to MSU or MSU to RA, such as 'ID Converter' <https://rapdb.dna.affrc.go.jp/tools/converter>.
    But it is difficult to convert super multiple IDs on these websites.
    The package can convert all IDs between the three IDs (RAP, MSU and SYMBOL) regardless of the number.