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• https://support.bioconductor.org/p/68824/ Announcement

BioCExplorer

Explore Bioconductor packages more nicely

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("BiocUpgrade")
biocLite("biocViews")
devtools::install_github("seandavi/BiocPkgTools")
devtools::install_github("shians/BioCExplorer")
library(BioCExplorer)
bioc_explore()

Annotation packages

• http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2012/SeattleFeb2012/Annotation.pdf
• https://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/2017/CSAMA/lectures/1-monday/lecture-04-a-annotation-intro/lecture-04a-annotation-intro.html
• Making and Utilizing TxDb Objects
• Genomic Annotation Resources Introduction to using gene, pathway, gene ontology, homology annotations and the AnnotationHub. Access GO, KEGG, NCBI, Biomart, UCSC, vendor, and other sources.
  • AnnotationHub
  • OrgDb
  • TxDb
  • OrganismDb
  • BSgenome
  • biomaRt
• http://genomicsclass.github.io/book/pages/bioc1_annoCheat.html

Misc

Package release history

https://support.bioconductor.org/p/69657/

Search the DESCRIPTION file (eg. VariantAnnotation package) in github and the release information can be found there.