[Bioc-devel] BioConductor Resources

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "CHELSEA JU" <chelseaju at ucla.edu>
> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:59:02 AM
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] BioConductor Resources
> 
> Dear BioC Developers,
> 
> As one of our data mining projects, we are trying to learn the
> metadata
> structure of different bioinformatics tool repositories. Since
> BioCondutor
> is one of the major repositories, we are wondering if there is an API
> service to retrieve all the package information. So far, we have
> discovered
> that the list of packages can be found at
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/, and would like to know if
> there
> is an easier way to retrieve the information than crawling through
> the
> links.

See the files

http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/VIEWS
and
http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES

Dan


> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Chelsea
> 
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