April 4, 2016

Bioconductors:

We are pleased to announce Bioconductor 3.3, consisting of 1211
software packages, 293 experiment data packages, and 916
up-to-date annotation packages.

There are 107 new software packages, and many updates and improvements
to existing packages; Bioconductor 3.3 is compatible with R 3.3,
and is supported on Linux, 32- and 64-bit Windows, and Mac OS X.  This
release includes an updated Bioconductor Amazon Machine Image
and Docker containers.

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

Contents

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* Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.3
* New Software Packages
* NEWS from new and existing packages
* Packages removed from Bioconductor since the last release

Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.3
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To update to or install Bioconductor 3.3:

1. Install R 3.3.  Bioconductor 3.3 has been designed expressly
for this version of R.

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

New Software Packages
=====================

This section is too big to include here, see the full release announcement at 

https://bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_3_release/

NEWS from new and existing packages
===================================

There is too much NEWS to include here, see the full release announcement at 

https://bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_3_release/

Packages removed since the last release
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No packages were removed from the release.

17 packages were marked as deprecated, to be removed in the next release.

One package, sbgr, was renamed to sevenbridges.

Deprecated packages:

* AffyTiling
* caFlowQ
* cellHTS
* DASiR
* DAVIDQuery
* GenoView
* inSilicoDb
* inSilicoMerging
* jmosaics
* metaX
* MMDiff
* neaGUI
* Rolexa
* RWebServices
* SJava
* SomatiCA
* spade