Bioconductor: an open computing resource for genomics

描述(由申请人提供)：生物导体项目为计算生物学和生物信息学的创新可靠软件的开发和分发提供了一个开放的资源。可用的软件范围很广，而且增长迅速，用户社区和开发人员社区也是如此。该项目维持一个向最终用户提供软件和文件的门户网站，以及一个活跃的邮件列表。为开发人员提供的其他服务包括软件存档、邮件列表以及帮助和建议程序的开发和设计 我们提出了一种积极的开发战略，旨在应对新的挑战，同时为现有工具和方法提供用户和开发人员支持。我们特别强调一种设计战略，该战略要适应生物学知识的不完善但不断发展的性质，以及新实验技术的相对快速发展。当新问题出现时，软件解决方案必须能够快速适应并促进它们。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Bioconductor project provides an open resource for the development and distribution of innovative reliable software for computational biology and bioinformatics. The range of available software is broad and rapidly growing as are both the user community and the developer community. The project maintains a web portal for delivering software and documentation to end users as well as an active mailing list. Additional services for developers include a software archive, mailing list and assistance and advice program development and design We propose an active development strategy designed to meet new challenges while simultaneously providing user and developer support for existing tools and methods. In particular we emphasize a design strategy that accommodates the imperfect, yet evolving nature of biological knowledge and the relatively rapid development of new experimental technologies. Software solutions must be able to rapidly adapt and to facilitate new problems when they arise.