[Bioc-devel] Why should Bioconductor developers re-use core classes?

I'm putting together a presentation with a demo on why Bioconductor
developers should re-use and extend core classes whenever possible. It
includes a demo of some real-life consequences from two packages I use a
lot, metagenomeSeq and phyloseq. These are far from the only examples, many
Bioconductor packages have created new classes from scratch, and I think as
a community we should greatly reduce that practice. I would welcome any
feedback:

https://www.slideshare.net/LeviWaldron/why-reuse-core-classes

(sorry the slides are a little Frankenstein - in the interest of speed I
made part of it in Powerpoint and part in Beamer, and used pdftk to
concatenate these! In practice I would do the Beamer part as a live-demo,
and take advantage of some animations in PPT)

Levi Waldron
http://www.waldronlab.org
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics     CUNY School of Public Health
US: +1 646-364-9616                                           Skype:
levi.waldron

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