TU Dortmund, Dept. of Statistics

Bioconductor Mirror

Department of Statistics

TU Dortmund

Germany

 Bioconductor

Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. Bioconductor is based primarily on the R programming language, but does contain contributions in other programming languages. It has two releases each year that follow the semiannual releases of R. In addition there are a large number of meta-data packages available that are mainly, but not solely, oriented towards different types of microarrays and next-generation sequencing analysis.

This site is

In order to use this mirror with R-2.10.x, use something like 

options(repos = c(
          CRAN      = "@CRAN@",
          BioCsoft  = "http://bioconductor.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/packages/2.5/bioc",
          BioCann   = "http://bioconductor.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/packages/2.5/data/annotation",
          BioCexp   = "http://bioconductor.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/packages/2.5/data/experiment",
          BioCextra = "http://bioconductor.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/packages/2.5/extra"
))
or adapt the version number as needed for non-recent versions of R. Having set these repositories in R, install.packages(), update.packages() and friends (including their GUI equivalents) will use this European mirror rather than the BioC master.

Future releases of R and the bioCLite script will include features to select Bioconductor mirrors even more conveniently.

Last change of overview page: 03 December 2009.