Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

Robert C Gentleman¹ , Vincent J Carey² , Douglas M Bates³ , Ben Bolstad⁴ , Marcel Dettling⁵ , Sandrine Dudoit⁴ , Byron Ellis⁶ , Laurent Gautier⁷ , Yongchao Ge⁸ , Jeff Gentry¹, Kurt Hornik⁹, Torsten Hothorn¹⁰, Wolfgang Huber¹¹, Stefano Iacus¹², Rafael Irizarry¹³, Friedrich Leisch⁹, Cheng Li¹, Martin Maechler⁵, Anthony J Rossini¹⁴, Gunther Sawitzki¹⁵, Colin Smith¹⁶, Gordon Smyth¹⁷, Luke Tierney¹⁸, Jean YH Yang¹⁹ and Jianhua Zhang¹

¹Department of Biostatistical Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

²Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

³Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, USA

⁴Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA

⁵Seminar for Statistics LEO C16, ETH Zentrum, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerl

⁶Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

⁷Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Building 208, Lyngby 2800, Denmark

⁸Department of Biomathematical Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, Box 1023, New York, NY 10029, USA

⁹Institut für Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/1071, Wien 1040, Austria

¹⁰Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Waldstraße6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

¹¹Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

¹²Department of Economics, University of Milan, 23 Via Mercalli, I-20123 Milan, Italy

¹³Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St E3035, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

¹⁴Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Box 357240, 1959 NE Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

¹⁵Statistisches Labor, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, D 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

¹⁶Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, TPC-28, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

¹⁷Division of Genetics and Bioinformatics, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia

¹⁸Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, 241 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

¹⁹Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics, Univerisity of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco 94143-0560, USA