Bioconductor: an open computing resource for genomics

描述（由申请人提供）：Bioconductor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资源。可用软件的范围很广，并且在快速增长，用户社区和开发人员社区也是如此。该项目维护了一个门户网站，用于向最终用户交付软件和文档，以及一个活跃的邮件列表。为开发人员提供的附加服务包括软件存档、邮件列表以及程序开发和设计方面的协助和建议

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.