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Huber W, Carey VJ, Davis S et al. The Bioconductor channel in F1000Research [version 2; peer review: not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2016, 4:217 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6758.2)
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The Bioconductor channel in F1000Research
[version 2; peer review: not peer reviewed]
PUBLISHED 20 Apr 2016
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Corresponding author:
Wolfgang Huber
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No competing interests were disclosed.
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W.H. acknowledges support by the European Commission through FP7 project RADIANT.
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© 2016 Huber W et al.
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How to cite: Huber W, Carey VJ, Davis S et al. The Bioconductor channel in F1000Research [version 2; peer review: not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2016, 4:217 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6758.2)
First published: 10 Jul 2015, 4:217 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6758.1)
Latest published: 20 Apr 2016, 4:217 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6758.2)
Revised Amendments from Version 1
This Editorial has been updated to reflect the expanded scope of the Bioconductor channel, which now goes beyond cross-package workflows to include: package-based vignettes that help solve biological questions, teaching labs, benchmark studies, methodological reviews and perspectives relating to bioinformatics software
Editorial
Bioinformatics is a wonderful field, since so many of the researchers who develop new concepts, methods and tools have embraced the sharing of their research outputs as free, open-source software. This openness has, no doubt, accelerated the breathtaking progress in the field of genomics (and related `omic technologies). Bioconductor (bioconductor.org) has become a place that many developers are choosing to host their software - it gives them a useful infrastructure for development and for providing effective user support1. It is also a venue where many prospective users go to when they look for a quality solution in genome-scale data analysis, where they will find some of the most advanced tools.
This abundance of tools, however, can be difficult to navigate. Bioconductor comes in two parts: as a collection of individual packages, each developed independently by a research group somewhere on the globe, and often among the experts in their field; and as a layer of infrastructure, with common data structures and core library functionality to glue the packages together and provide, as we call it, ‘interoperability’.
The Bioconductor channel in F1000Research hosts task-oriented workflows. Each workflow covers a solution to a current, important problem in genome-scale data analysis from end to end. Often it will invoke resources from several packages; combine multiple data types and demonstrate integrative analysis and modelling techniques. We explicitly welcome workflows that are written by authors that not the developers of any of the used packages.
Of course we also welcome package descriptions and package-based vignettes by package authors that show how their package(s) can be employed to solve a scientific question, either by itself or in conjunction with other Bioconductor packages.
The channel also welcomes bioinformatics teaching labs, benchmark studies, methodological reviews and bioinformatics software oriented perspective papers.
We encourage the use of Rmarkdown and knitr (or similar facilities) for authoring papers in this channel. By integrating concrete software examples with textual motivation and explanation this lets the papers be alive.
We are excited about the rapid and transparent publication process of F1000Research and look forward to community contributions.
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