Hi,

in principle this sounds good, but it seems there's much overlap with the 
bioconductor web-site that already offers, packages, workflows, 
documentation, tutorials and hands-on hints and discussion (mailing list) 
...

In my experience many packages are as abstract as possible (IRanges and 
off-spring ...) whereas others are more tailored towards a specific need. 
Most of the code that I write is just "glue" to stick packages together in 
a workflow (or analysis), but it's not really re-usable workflow stuff, 
since it's often project specific, etc ... . I think there's only limited 
abstraction beyond the package level that's really useful - otherwise I'd 
write a package ;-) .

Sorry, don't want to be negative, but maybe I didn't get your point. The 
only thing I'd really find useful is a web-based subscription free forum 
(I think this topic was briefly discussed at the last bioc developers 
conference in Heidelberg, but I don't remember the outcome ;-).

Maybe instead of setting up a new web-site you could join the 
bioc-developers and help improving their web-site (no offense, after 
getting used to the new web-site I really started liking it ;-)

   best,

  arne 




Radhouane Aniba <aradwen@gmail.com> 
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Hi BioC users and contributors,

In order to improve collaboration between scientists, computer engineers,
bioinformaticians working with R and Bioconductor, I would like to see how
much among you here in the list, would be interested in developing or 
making
part of a website that plays the role of collaborative platform for
R/Bioconductor codes, packages, workflows and contributions, so that we
develop the "re-use" and "don't reinvent the wheel" spirit in one hand, 
and
to put in practice a more collaborative work and interaction between 
people
working on R/Bioconductor related projects.

I already have experience in the development of such platforms and thought
it could be useful and interesting to propose such initiative to people 
like
you and I working with R/BioC

This is in no way a competitive or alternative approach to Bioconductor
mailing list but a complementary platform for sharing codes / workflows /
analysis scenarios using R/BioC

Would you please take a few moment to answer to this topic so that I can
have an idea on your position in regards of such initiative.

Thank you

Radhouane

-- 
*Radhouane Aniba*
*Bioinformatics Research Associate*
*Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology* *(CBCB)*
*University of Maryland, College Park
MD 20742*

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