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17.1 INTRODUCTION 17.1.1 WHAT IS BIOCONDUCTOR? Bioconductor [1] is an open source software project for the R statistical computing language. The main aim of the project is to provide R packages to facilitate the analysis of DNA microarray, sequencing, SNP and other genomic data. In addition
for data, they also annotation. The normally released biannually.1 In addition to providing packages the Bioconductor site (bioconductor.org) also provides documentation for each package, often a brief vignette and a more comprehensive user guide.
