Draw syntenic relationships between genome assemblies.
    There are 3 functions which take a tab delimited file containing alignment data for 
    syntenic blocks between genomes to produce either a linear alignment plot, 
    an evolution highway style plot, or a painted ideogram representing syntenic relationships.
    There is also a function to convert alignment data in the DESCHRAMBLER/inferCAR format
    to the required data structure.

Implements the synthetic control group method for comparative case studies
 as described in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) and Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller
 (2010, 2011, 2014). The synthetic control method allows for effect estimation in
 settings where a single unit (a state, country, firm, etc.) is exposed to an event
 or intervention. It provides a data-driven procedure to construct synthetic control
 units based on a weighted combination of comparison units that approximates the
 characteristics of the unit that is exposed to the intervention. A combination of
 comparison units often provides a better comparison for the unit exposed to the
 intervention than any comparison unit alone.

Generate synthetic time series from commonly used statistical models, including linear, nonlinear and chaotic systems. Applications to testing methods can be found in Jiang, Z., Sharma, A., & Johnson, F. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103430> and Jiang, Z., Sharma, A., & Johnson, F. (2020) <doi:10.1029/2019WR026962> associated with an open-source tool by Jiang, Z., Rashid, M. M., Johnson, F., & Sharma, A. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104907>.

A critical first step in systematic literature reviews
  and mining of academic texts is to identify relevant texts from a range
  of sources, particularly databases such as 'Web of Science' or 'Scopus'.
  These databases often export in different formats or with different metadata
  tags. 'synthesisr' expands on the tools outlined by Westgate (2019)
  <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1374> to import bibliographic data from a range of formats
  (such as 'bibtex', 'ris', or 'ciw') in a standard way, and allows merging
  and deduplication of the resulting dataset.