The Bioconductor experiment data repository currently contains 224 packages. Experiment data packages have important roles as example data sets on which methods are demonstrated; some can be used for benchmarking and comparing methods, and some are reproducible descriptions of analyses reported in scientific papers (e.g., the data and vignette of the package Hiiragi2013 reproduce a recently reported transcriptome analysis of single cells in mouse embryos [6]). Archives of published experiment data can be harvested using the GEOquery, ArrayExpress and SRAdb packages.
