From: "CHELSEA JU" <chelseaju at ucla.edu>
To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:59:02 AM
Subject: [Bioc-devel] BioConductor Resources
Dear BioC Developers,
As one of our data mining projects, we are trying to learn the
metadata
structure of different bioinformatics tool repositories. Since
BioCondutor
is one of the major repositories, we are wondering if there is an API
service to retrieve all the package information. So far, we have
discovered
that the list of packages can be found at
http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/, and would like to know if
there
is an easier way to retrieve the information than crawling through
the
links.