[Bioc-devel] BiocParallel

[Martin Morgan]

Interested developers -- I added the start of a BiocParallel package to the 
Bioconductor subversion repository and build system.

The package is mirrored on github to allow for social coding; I encourage people 
to contribute via that mechanism.

   https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel

The purpose is to help focus our efforts at developing appropriate parallel 
paradigms. Currently the package Imports: parallel and implements pvec and 
mclapply in a way that allows for operation on any vector or list supporting 
length(), [, and [[ (the latter for mclapply). pvec in particular seems to be 
appropriate for GRanges-like objects, where we don't necessarily want to extract 
many thousands of S4 instances of individual ranges with [[.

Hopefully the ideas in the package can be folded back in to parallel as they mature.

Martin
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Dr. Martin Morgan, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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