[Bioc-devel] Announcement of a new package called bacon

[Maarten van Iterson]

So the policy could be: before release to bioc-devel and after release to
the support-site. Maybe it is more useful to post only on the support-site
on release? I assume most bioc-devel subscribers follow the support-site.

Maarten

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:29 PM, James W. MacDonald <jmacdon at uw.edu> wrote:

> I agree, but bacon is part of release. As Maarten said "
> *I would like to introduce the package bacon that has been added
> tobioconductor just before the release of version 3.3." ��*
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Martin Morgan <
> martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
>
>> On 06/09/2016 10:06 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>> You should post this on the support site (
>>> https://support.bioconductor.org),
>>> using the 'News' item description. This bioc-devel is intended for
>>> discussion of issues with development of packages, not really for
>>> announcing new packages.
>>>
>>
>> actually the email to developers on package acceptance encourages them to
>> post to bioc-devel.
>>
>> I think the rationale was that the package is only available in devel, so
>> advertising on the support site would just lead to disappointment.
>>
>> Open to revised policies / suggestions, though.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Maarten van Iterson <mviterson at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to introduce the package bacon that has been added to
>>>> bioconductor just before the release of version 3.3.
>>>>
>>>> bacon can be used to estimate and control for bias and inflation often
>>>> present in epigenome- and transcriptome-wide association
>>>> studies(EWAS/TWAS). The idea behind bacon is to estimate the empirical
>>>> null
>>>> distribution from the data (using Bayesian statistics) and use the
>>>> empirical null i.s.o. a theoretical null for inference. Bacon supports
>>>> bias- and inflation-controlled fixed-effect meta-analysis that can be
>>>> executed in parallel. A manuscript is available from biorxiv (
>>>> http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/27/055772).
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Maarten van Iterson
>>>>
>>>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential
>> information.  If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or
>> agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended
>> recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying,
>> distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited.  If you have
>> received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by
>> e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
> Biostatistician
> University of Washington
> Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
> 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100
> Seattle WA 98105-6099
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]