Persons interested in peer review of Bioconductor packages please send me an e-mail with content PACKAGE [package id] REVIEWER [your name and email address] then contact the maintainer of the package you are interested in (retrieve email address from the associated DESCRIPTION file) Peer review must be completed April 20. If there are not enough volunteers, core members will be assigned peer review tasks. ------------------------------------------------------- Peer review process for Bioconductor R packages Release date is April 29, 2002. Upcoming events April 8: feature freeze April 15: code freeze April 29: release Here is a list of packages distributed at bioconductor.org The peer review process should consist of a) reviewer identifies self and contacts maintainer to determine condition of code around april 15, and also contacts me to update this reviewer database b) reviewer obtains code and doc and verifies claims and performance c) reviewer indicates necessary changes and wishes d) maintainer responds in writing to review carboning me for archiving of software evaluation Package Maintainer Version Peer reviewer ------- ---------- ------- ------------- Biobase RG, VC 0.5-2 annotate RG 0.5 affy RI 0.8.0 AnnBuilder JZ 0.5 bin2d RG 0.5 edd VC 0.5-2 genecluster RG 0.1 genefilter RG 0.5-2 geneplotter JG 0.1 rhdf5 RG 0.1-0 multtest YG 0.6 NBIR VC 0.1-1 RanForests VC 0.2 ROC VC 0.5-4 tkWidgets JZ 0.5 marrayClasses SD 0.1 marrayNorm SD 0.1 marrayPlots SD 0.1 --- Vince Carey, PhD Ass't Prof Med (Biostatistics) Harvard Medical School Channing Laboratory - ph 6175252265 fa 6177311541 181 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA stvjc@channing.harvard.edu

>>>> "vincent" == Vincent Carey <525-2265 <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>> writes: vincent> April 29: release Is that Apr 29, or Apr 26 (as per Jeff G's earlier email)? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics U. of Washington Biostatistics rossini@u.washington.edu FHCRC/SCHARP/HIV Vaccine Trials Net rossini@scharp.org -------------- http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ ---------------- FHCRC: M-W: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email UW: Th: 206-543-1044 (fax=3286)|Change last 4 digits of phone to FAX (my friday location is usually completely unpredictable.)

Administration of bioc pkg peer review will now be conducted using the bioc Twiki This is a password controlled collaborative web-editable document. To enter, visit www.bioconductor.org, left margin has Projects; click on Collaborative beneath that actual URL is http://www.bioconductor.org/twiki/bin/view/Bioconductor/PeerReview you will need to register if you wish to edit that document to enter yourself as a reviewer. if for some reason you are not allowed to register, just send me a note with your concerns. all changes are logged. I will enter the initials of a reviewer with [vol [date]] if they volunteer by email to me. assignments will begin next week. those who read the list will note that there are problems with the date of the release. don't worry about the actual release date at the moment; we still need peer review to begin soon. --- Vince Carey, PhD Ass't Prof Med (Biostatistics) Harvard Medical School Channing Laboratory - ph 6175252265 fa 6177311541 181 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA stvjc@channing.harvard.edu