Images 2 images owned by BioConductor (102299934621)

Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project to provide tools for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data.

Bioconductor is based primarily on the R programming language, but does contain contributions in other programming languages. It has two releases each year that follow the semiannual releases of R. At any one time there is a release version, which corresponds to the released version of R, and a development version, which corresponds to the development version of R. Most users will find the release version appropriate for their needs. In addition there are a large number of meta-data packages available that are mainly, but not solely, oriented towards different types of microarrays.

The Bioconductor project was started in the Fall of 2001 and is overseen by the Bioconductor core team, based primarily at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with other members coming from various US and international institutions. It gained widespread exposure in the groundbreaking Genome Biology 2004 paper Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics. More project details are available online in the Bioconductor annual reports.