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Bioconductor Working Groups: Guidelines and activities

4 Inactive Working Groups

These are legacy working groups that may have achieved their goals and now are currently inactive. If you think there is a need to re-establish one of the listed groups please contact the listed Lead and .

4.1 Package Review

  • Description: The package review working group was established to review and revise the current review process for Bioconductor. It also was tasked with updating Bioconductor package guidelines and package submission documentation. Its current focus is to update, clean up, and reorganize the material presented at http://contributions.bioconductor.org/. This is not the group to volunteer to become a Bioconductor package reviewer. This group is to refine the requirements for a Bioconductor package.
  • Links: https://github.com/Bioconductor/pkgrevdocs, https://contribution.bioconductor.org
  • Slack: #package-submission, #reviewers
  • Leads: Lori Shepherd
  • Current Members: Lori Shepherd, Kayla Interdonato, Johannes Rainer, Yagoub Adam, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Estefania Mancini, Mike Smith, Daniela Cassol

4.2 BiocAwards

  • Description: In 2020, Bioconductor established annual Bioconductor awards to recognize outstanding contributions to the Bioconductor community. This committee meets annually starting roughly 4-6 months before the annual conference to conduct nominations and voting.
  • Links: https://bioconductor.org/about/awards/
  • Leads: Lori Shepherd and Maria Doyle
  • Current Members: Stevie Pederson, Johannes Rainer

4.3 Website

  • Description: The Website working group will create the list of requirements for the Bioconductor website redesign.
  • Links:
  • Slack: #biocwebsite
  • Leads: Maria Doyle, Lori Shepherd, Aedin Culhane
  • Current Members: Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Sean Davis, Susan Holmes, Vince Carey, Alex Mahmoud, Marcel Ramos, Hédia Thani, Shila Ghazanfar, Laurent Gatto, Jen Wokaty, Samuel Gamboa, Bob Shear, Matt Ritchie