[Bioc-devel] [BioC] Human Affymetrix Exon microarrays

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/26/2010 01:14 PM, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
> [cc-ed to bioc-devel since it requires Seattle people comment, and might
> be interesting for other developers.]
> 
> Oct/26/10 4:10 PM, Ernest Turro wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ... my R package mmbgx ...includes
>> pre-defined probe-probeset mappings obtained from X:Map, which makes
>> it too big for Bioconductor (135MB). ... It's available from
>> http://bgx.org.uk/software/mmbgx.html .
>>
> 
> Hi Ernest
> 
> there is a mechanism for "data" packages, outside the better-known
> "software" section, exactly for cases such as yours. E.g. the 'CCl4'
> package is ~100 MB:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/experiment/html/CCl4.html
> and 'davidTiling' is afaIr even six times larger.
> 
> For several reasons, it is good to separate such a big dataset, and the
> code that uses it, each into their own package - not least because the
> code package can then be updated without re-downloading the data that
> presumably are more stable.
> 
> I've just failed to locate the instructions on the website (*) for how
> to submit such a data package - perhaps someone (from Seattle?) can advise?

I added a short section

http://bioconductor.org/developers/package-guidelines/#package-types

mentioning different package types, indicating that, other than space,
the requirements are the same as for software packages, and  that for
additional information the interested developer should see

http://bioconductor.org/developers/package-submission/#support

Hope that's helpful,

Martin

> 
> (*) I looked here:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/package-submission
> http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/index.html
> 
> 
>     Best wishes
>     Wolfgang
> 
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