[Bioc-devel] Updating biocViews of your package

[Keith Satterley]

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

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Keith Satterley
Bioinformatics Division
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Parkville, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia
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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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