[Bioc-devel] Interested in VariantAnnotation transfer and BiocStyle assistance

[John Muirhead-Gould]

Dear Bioconductor Community,



I am writing to express my interest in both open maintainership opportunities currently listed on the Help Wanted page:



- VariantAnnotation - Transfer

- BiocStyle - Assistance



I am John Muirhead-Gould, founder of Nodes Bio ( https://nodes.bio ), a bioinformatics platform built in part on the Bioconductor ecosystem. Both packages are directly relevant to our work and our users.



VariantAnnotation (Transfer)

I have reviewed the full codebase and the 30-issue open backlog. My immediate priorities would be:

- Correctness fixes in locateVariants and predictCoding (#81, #83, #84, #86)

- I/O round-trip fidelity (#78, #80, #65)

- EnsDb support in locateVariants (#74) - the single most requested enhancement

- Expanded Ensembl VEP REST API integration, building on the existing use_vep_api.R foundation



BiocStyle (Assistance)

BiocStyle is infrastructure every Bioconductor package depends on for documentation. I am happy to take on the maintenance burden here - responding to issues, keeping pace with Pandoc and rmarkdown changes, and ensuring the package stays green across release cycles.



I am comfortable with R, C, the Bioconductor release cycle, and the support obligations that come with core package maintenance.



Please let me know what steps are needed to proceed on both. Happy to provide any additional information or references.



Best regards,



John Muirhead-Gould

Founder | Nodes Bio, Inc.

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https://www.nodes.bio 

330-206-3796
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