I am currently developing a package that I plan to submit to Bioconductor. When I run BiocCheck::BiocCheck() I get the following warning: "WARNING: No Bioconductor dependencies detected. Note that some infrastructure packages may not have Bioconductor dependencies. For more information, reach out to the Bioconductor community and/or consider a CRAN submission."

My package does not have other Bioconductor packages as dependencies at the moment. It is designed for the analysis of metabolomics data. In metabolomics MS-spektra are often processed by packages such as "spectra" and the result are concentration tables. My package just takes concentration tables (dataframe with feature and concentration of feature at experimental condition) as input.

Does this warning mean I cannot submit to Bioconductor?

Hi Katja,

If I understand correctly, you are focusing on the quantitative data. In this case, you won't need to depend on Spectra, or any similar package. There are however other classes in the Bioconductor project, in particular the SummarizedExperiment class that are dedicated to the analysis of quantitative assays, including metabolomics. You would need to make use of this existing infrastructure in your package to make it a good fit for Bioconductor. I would also suggest to browse other metabolomics packages to see what is already available.

Best wishes,

Laurent