🎓 New Publication!

Our first paper on Bioconductor training from the Bioconductor Training Committee is now published in PLOS Computational Biology. We're pleased to share our work with the community.

Read here: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012925

Thank you to everyone involved for your contributions!

#Bioconductor #RStats #Bioinformatics

A bigger post than usual this time, but I wanted to cover as much of the background as I could...

https://jcarroll.com.au/2024/08/11/tidy-dataframes-but-not-tibbles/

{DFplyr} - use {dplyr} functions on an S4Vectors::DataFrame

#rstats #bioconductor #tidyomics

We’re brimming with glee to announce the release of bonsai 0.3.0.

bonsai is a parsnip extension package for tree-based models and includes support for random forest and gradient-boosted tree frameworks like partykit and LightGBM.

The 0.3.0 release of bonsai introduces support for accelerated oblique random forests via the "aorsf" engine for classification and regression in tidymodels.

Learn more on the tidyverse blog: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/06/bonsai-0-3-0/

#RStats

Made it to Salzburg for #useR2024 ! 🇦🇹 

Couldn't be more excited for my Keynote talk on Tues:

💫"Keep R Weird" 🤪

Come for the hexagon pantsuit, stay for the rant about non-standard eval.

https://sched.co/1c9Ix

(🦭and watch @r_data_table for how to grab dins and some data.table swag after! )

Someone should write a bot for #GitHub Issues, #Slack, etc. that can teach users how to create code blocks.

From user-support experience, it's quite a common problem, where people either send screenshots of code/output, paste it in as-is (which become a rendered nightmare), use inline code, etc. It takes quite a bit of back-and-forth to teach them how to use code blocks.

#Markdown #ux

I was just happy to see that @joss passed 2500 published papers sometime in the last couple of weeks!

This is a nice demonstration of volunteer-run diamond open access succeeding, over about 8 years now.

And we seem to be accelerating, with a bunch of new editors.

Accepted papers per month for this year:
Jan 41
Feb 38
Mar 47
Apr 37
May 51 (a new record for a month!)
Jun 41 (so far)

🚀 Boost Your Bioinformatics Skills!

Join us for the Bioconductor Carpentries RNA-Seq Analysis Workshop!

📅 July 22-23, 2024
📍 Grand Rapids, MI

🔍 Who: Biologists and researchers with some R experience

💡 Why:
- Hands-on Bioconductor training
- Expert instructors
- Networking opportunities

👉 Register now! https://buff.ly/3VdEjj2

#Bioinformatics #Bioconductor #RStats #Carpentries #BioC2024