Bioconductors:

We are pleased to announce Bioconductor 3.0, consisting of 934
software packages, 219 experiment data packages, and 870
up-to-date annotation packages. 

There are 114 new software packages, and many updates and improvements
to existing packages; Bioconductor 3.0 is compatible with R 3.1,
and is supported on Linux, 32- and 64-bit Windows, and Mac OS X.  This
release includes an updated Bioconductor Amazon Machine Image.

Visit http://bioconductor.org
for details and downloads.

Contents
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* Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.0
* New Software Packages
* NEWS from new and existing packages
* Packages removed from the release

Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.0
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To update to or install Bioconductor 3.0:

1. Install R 3.1.1.  Bioconductor 3.0 has been designed expressly
for this version of R.

2. Follow the instructions at
http://bioconductor.org/install/.

New Software Packages
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There are 114 new packages in this release of Bioconductor.

See the full release announcement for descriptions of new packages.

NEWS from new and existing packages
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See the full release announcement for package NEWS extracts.

Packages removed from the release
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The following packages are no longer in the release:

Resourcerer, RMAPPER, virtualArray