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This year is the 40th anniversary of S, the ancestor of R – the open source language that has become an indispensable tool to the life sciences. It is also the 15th anniversary of Bioconductor, the software project focussing on the analysis of high-throughput genomic data, which is built on R.

To mark these occasions the Bioconductor and RPackage channels will be publishing a series of articles in the run up to the BioC 2016 and UseR! conferences this June, and are now inviting contributions.

The Bioconductor channel

Guest Editors: Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Kasper D Hansen (John Hopkins), Sean Davis (National Cancer Institute), Vincent Carey (Harvard), Martin Morgan (Roswell Park Cancer Institute)

This channel highlights Bioconductor package-based vignettes, cross-package workflows that guide users through common and important tasks in multi-omic data analysis and integrative bioinformatics, and other articles relating to the Bioconductor project. The submission deadline is May 31st. This is a firm deadline to ensure papers are published before the BioC 2016 conference starts. If you are interested in contributing or have any other questions, please email us at research@f1000.com or contact the Guest Editors directly.

The RPackage channel

Guest Editor: Scott Chamberlain (University California, Berkeley).

This channel publishes articles describing new R packages and Shiny applications applicable to the life sciences. The submission deadline for the RPackage channel is June 7th. If you are interested in contributing or have any other questions, please email us at research@f1000.com.

R articles on F1000Research

The F1000Research platform is well suited to publishing R code-focused articles for a number of reasons:

–          Article submissions in LaTeX via our integration with Overleaf

–          Faithful syntax styling and code formatting

–          Open science publishing: our articles are open access, are openly peer reviewed, and all associated code and data must be open licensed

–          Papers are indexed in databases such as PubMed, Scopus and Embase after the article passes peer review, maximizing the number of people who will see (and use) your code

–          Version control: articles can be updated in parallel with major code updates, and readers tracking the article will be alerted as and when new versions published

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