Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

Genome Biology - Tập 5 - Trang 1-16 - 2004
Robert C Gentleman1, Vincent J Carey2, Douglas M Bates3, Ben Bolstad4, Marcel Dettling5, Sandrine Dudoit4, Byron Ellis6, Laurent Gautier7, Yongchao Ge8, Jeff Gentry1, Kurt Hornik9, Torsten Hothorn10, Wolfgang Huber11, Stefano Iacus12, Rafael Irizarry13, Friedrich Leisch9, Cheng Li1, Martin Maechler5, Anthony J Rossini14, Gunther Sawitzki15, Colin Smith16, Gordon Smyth17, Luke Tierney18, Jean YH Yang19, Jianhua Zhang1
1Department of Biostatistical Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
2Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
3[Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA]
4Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
5Seminar for Statistics LEO C16, ETH Zentrum, Switzerl
6Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
7Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
8Department of Biomathematical Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
9Institut für Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, TU Wien, Wien, Austria
10Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
11Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), Heidelberg, Germany
12Department of Economics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
13Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
14Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, NE Pacific, Seattle, USA
15Statistisches Labor, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Heidelberg, Germany
16Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
17Division of Genetics and Bioinformatics, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
18Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
19Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics, Univerisity of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

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The Bioconductor project is an initiative for the collaborative creation of extensible software for computational biology and bioinformatics. The goals of the project include: fostering collaborative development and widespread use of innovative software, reducing barriers to entry into interdisciplinary scientific research, and promoting the achievement of remote reproducibility of research results. We describe details of our aims and methods, identify current challenges, compare Bioconductor to other open bioinformatics projects, and provide working examples.

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