Hi All, We are getting ready for the next release of Bioconductor and I watned to let you know about two ways that you can help the project improve. 1. Give feedback to package maintainers This is the time to stress-test the packages you like to use and communicate any bugs, feature requests, or ideas for improvement to the package's maintainer. The maintainer's email address can be displayed by loading the package in R and calling packageDescription("somePkgs"). The most useful feedback for package maintainers will be from users exercising the current devel version of the package. If you want to test the latest stuff, install R-devel and then use the biocLite script which will automatically detect R-devel and install devel versions of Bioconductor packages. 2. Donate Documentation Bioconductor packages (are supposed to) come with vignettes, short documents written in Sweave that demonstrate the use of the package. We would like to solicit contributions from the Bioconductor community of Sweave documents that demonstrate the use of one or more Bioconductor packages to accomplish specific analysis tasks. So if you have figured out how to use some of the Bioconductor packages to accomplish your analysis goals, consider writing up an example that others can use. Thanks for the help, + seth PS: The upcoming Bioconductor release will follow the release of R by a few days and is tentatively scheduled for early October.