Bioconductor: Open Source Software for Genomics
Providing Bioconductor training by redeveloping the website and developing global infrastructure to deliver high-quality community-led training in local languages.
About Bioconductor
Bioconductor is an open-source, open-development software project in the R statistical software language and is widely used in bioinformatics, immunology, microbiology, and single-cell genomics. Over 1,200 developers have contributed software that is downloaded by users over 500,000 times per year.
In April 2020, we established a Community Advisory Board (CAB) that includes elected representatives from America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America to outreach to the growing global Bioconductor community. The CAB identified accessible high-quality training materials and delivery methods as an urgent, impactful need. Fundamental components for a successful training platform include:
- Skilled and effective program management.
- Excellence in instruction.
- Quality of training materials.
- Equity in access.
This proposal will redevelop the Bioconductor web presence to ensure Bioconductor communities have equitable access to quality, well-structured project information and training materials. This work will also deliver structured, high-quality, culturally-aware, inclusive global training by developing a platform for community-led instruction.
Publications
Collaborations
Our lab supports the open-source bioinformatics community and is working with:
- ELIXIR: European Infrastructure for life-science information.
- LERO: Ireland’s open-source software research center.
Funding Sources
This project is funded by a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CZI Science Essential Open Source Software (EOSS) award to Aedin Culhane.
