Chunk #25 — 3 The developer perspective — 3.1 The package ecosystem

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Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor.

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All software distributed by Bioconductor is in the form of R packages. This simplifies software delivery, use and maintenance, but it puts a burden on the developers. They need to learn how to write R packages, including documentation and test cases (Box 2).