[Bioc-devel] Updating biocViews of your package
Hi Nishant, Whilst checking my affylmGUI and limmaGUI packages, I noticed that there is an inconsistency in the BiocViews page at: http://wiki.fhcrc.org/bioc/biocViews_categories and the list of BiocView categories at: http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/biocViews/index.php You have used the BiocViews entry from the limma package DESCRIPTION file as an example. In particular: limma/DESCRIPTION: biocViews: Microarray, OneChannel, TwoChannel, DataImport, QualityControl, Preprocessing, Statistics, DifferentialExpression, MultipleComparisons, TimeCourse It includes the term "Statistics". However from my viewing of the list of terms on the index page mentioned above, there is not a Statistics term. Should there still be a Statistics term in BiocViews (as there used to be)? Gordon doesn't have a problem in changing his limma DESCRIPTION file if that's what you would like, cheers, Keith ======================== Keith Satterley Bioinformatics Division The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia =======================
Nishant Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Dear Bioconductor developers, We have been reviewing the cataloging of Bioconductor packages to ensure that new users can easily identify packages that meet their requirements. biocViews is a categorization system that helps users navigate the growing collection of packages in Bioconductor. The biocViews field in the DESCRIPTION file of each package determines the views under which each package appears in. The Bioconductor task views can be found at http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html The views provided by biocViews integrate the software, annotation data and experiment data repositories provided by Bioconductor, thereby helping users identify packages that best suit their requirements. With the Bioconductor 2.3 release, we have updated the list of biocViews terms. The updated list can be found at http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/biocViews/index.php With the upcoming release of Bioconductor 2.4, we would like to encourage use of appropriate biocViews. We request all package maintainers to update their package DESCRIPTION files with updated biocViews terms most appropriate for their package. If you have additional questions, please contact us by posting to the bioc-devel mailing list. We will be glad to help. Thanks in advance for your time and effort, The Bioconductor core team
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