Developers also benefit from fundamental software library functions that support the operations they want to carry out. For example, the Ranges infrastructure is used directly or indirectly by 43% of all Bioconductor packages, and nearly 60% depend on Biobase and over 70% on BiocGenerics. By using shared infrastructures, developers are relieved from the task of creating and maintaining such components themselves, and they can focus on their unique domain-specific contributions.
