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ArticlePLoS computational biology2025

Learning and teaching biological data science in the Bioconductor community.

Jenny Drnevich, Frederick J Tan, Fabricio Almeida-Silva, Robert Castelo, Aedin C Culhane, Sean Davis, Maria A Doyle, Ludwig Geistlinger, Andrew R Ghazi, Susan Holmes and 8 more

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Jenny DrnevichRoy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-1401-8311
Frederick J TanDepartment of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Fabricio Almeida-SilvaDepartment of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Robert CasteloDepartment of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2229-4508
Aedin C CulhaneLimerick Digital Cancer Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Sean DavisUniversity of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Maria A DoyleLimerick Digital Cancer Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Ludwig GeistlingerCore for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Andrew R GhaziCore for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Susan HolmesStatistics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-2208-8168
Leo LahtiDepartment of Computing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Alexandru MahmoudChanning Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Kozo NishidaRIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
Marcel RamosDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, City University of New York School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-3242-0582
Kevin Rue-AlbrechtMRC WIMM Centre for Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3899-3872
David J H ShihSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Laurent GattoComputational Biology and Bioinformatics Unit, de Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-1520-2268
Charlotte SonesonFriedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3833-2169

Funding

Supplement: Enhancing Community Contributions to Bioconductor With Build System Containerization and a GPU for TestingU24HG004059 · NHGRI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI VINCENT JAMES CAREY, Rafael Angel Irizarry · 2021 to 2026
$7.3M
Cancer Genomics: Integrative and Scalable Solutions in R/BioconductorU24CA289073 · NCI · GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY · PI Sean Davis, Levi Waldron · 2024 to 2026
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA289073NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG004059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern biological research is increasingly data-intensive, leading to a growing demand for effective training in biological data science. In this article, we provide an overview of key resources and best practices available within the Bioconductor project-an open-source software community focused on omics data analysis. This guide serves as a valuable reference for both learners and educators in the field.

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PMID40261894
PMCPMC12013867

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