💬 Support and Community Forum
Get Help or Connect with the Community
The following are some of the many ways you can connect with the Bioconductor community. This includes our support site for most questions about using packages, a number of community forums for connecting about research and analysis, literature references, and developer outlets for questions about package developmenet and enhancements.
Please remember when posting a question or response to abide by theBioconductor Codeof Conduct.
Support Site
For almost all questions about Bioconductor software please use theBioconductorSupportSite. This site is the primary way to contact us and is a great wayto search fo answers to your questions, post novel questions or even toshare you knowledge with other people who have questions about theproject.
There is acomprehensiveposting guidewe encourage reading before posting new questions to the community.Doing so will help you to get clear answers to your questions.
Developers Resources
This mailing list is for discussions about the active and future development of Bioconductor, and pre-testing of new versions. It is meant for those developing contributed packages and enhancements of existing Bioconductor packages as well as others who have an interest in keeping up to date with these matters.
You may browse or subscribe to theBioc-devel list. Email everyone subscribed to the bioc-devel list by sending an email tobioc-devel@r-project.org. If you are not actively subscribed, an email to this list will be pending moderator approval.
The Bioconductor Developers’ Forum aims to provide a regular platformfor Bioconductor developers to describe existing softwareinfrastructure, to present plans for future developments, and discusschanges that may impact developers within the Bioconductor project.
The Bioconductor New Developer Program is a group-mentorship/buddyprogram for would-be, new, or hesitant developers or for developers whowish to refresh their skills and would like to have mentorship indeveloping R scripts to a fully fledged Bioconductor package.
Community Forums
Bioconductor has an immersive Zulip community that includes users and developers. There are many specialized channels for questions, and to foster collaborations.
A Bioconductor Mastodon channel is also available.
Bioconductor hosts annual conferences, courses, and workshops, as well as community runevents. Presented materials can be found on ourcourses page and any videos recorded can be found on our BioconductorYouTube Channel.
Bioconductor packages maintained by the core team are kept in sync between the canonical git.biconductor.org location and the Bioconductor github location. The community is welcome to use github issues to report bugs or to request enhancements. Please do not use github to ask questions. General questions and questions to resolve ERRORs should be posted to theSupport Site.
Contributed Bioconductor packages may or may not have an associated, up-to-date github repository. You may post issues there if you think it appropriate. It might also help to check the package landing page or DESCRIPTION file for a "BugReport" field that the package maintainer list for monitoring.
Other
Packages submitted to Bioconductor are required to have a comprehensive vignette that demonstrates package functionality along with standard function help pages. It is encouraged to read and consult package documentation before reaching out on any support outlet.
The Bioconductor blog consists of articles contributed from the community regarding a range of topics. We encourage everyone to read but alsocontribute blog articles.
Our list of featured community contributed resources have instrucions as well as links to existing literature and publications citing Bioconductor.