Bioconductor

Summary

Make Bioconductor available for Fedora

Owner

Name: PierreYvesChibon

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora11
Last updated: 19 July 2008
Percentage of completion: 10%

Detailed Description

Bioconductor is a large R libraries repository widely used in bioinformatics for statistical analysis.

Benefit to Fedora

Widely used packaging Bioconductor would offer a good way to promote Fedora as desktop platform for bioinformaticians.

In addition it could also be promoted in RHEL since some servers running RHEL are used to process the analysis that bioconductor offers.

Scope

Bioconductors contains around 300 packages, not all will be packaged in Fedora (at least not at first). I think for the feature the basis packages of bioconductor should be done.

Bioconductor has its own installation script in R which enable to install the basis libraries of Bioconductor.

These libraries are

affy
affydata
affyPLM
annaffy
annotate
Biobase
Biostrings
DynDoc
gcrma
genefilter
geneplotter
hgu95av2.db
limma
marray
matchprobes
multtest
ROC
vsn
xtable
affyQCReport.

The problem is that those libraries can have a high amount of dependencies.

Test Plan

Install the RPMs and test them

User Experience

The users should be able to download the libraries and start to work with it without problem.

In addition it might be interesting to create a package group Bioconductor, which allows to install those packages and their dependencies all at once.

Dependencies

They are included in the R libraries, most of them are in Bioconductor, some can be in the CRAN repository.

The question of the metadata and experiment data packages should be taken into account. These are heavy packages which do not evolve lot between release. Two of them are incorporated already into Fedora, they brought the question of inheritance between the version.

Contingency Plan

None

Planning

Find interested contributors
Get a clear view on the amount of packages that have to be done
Package and review them

Documentation

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