Bioconductor
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What both publish
| Fact | Bioconductor | GNU ELPA |
|---|---|---|
| Limit: outages | The public status history records incidents including a package-stats failure lasting 26 hours 58 minutes and an archive outage lasting 24 hours 3 minutes. | Reddit users reported GNU ELPA and related GNU sites being unreachable for hours during a June 2024 incident, with packet loss and 443 errors. |
| Purpose | Bioconductor develops and shares open-source software for rigorous, reproducible analysis of biological data. | GNU ELPA is the default package repository for GNU Emacs. |
Bioconductor plans
- BioconductorFree
- FreeFree
GNU ELPA plans
- GNU ELPAFree
Pick Bioconductor if…
Bioconductor suits researchers and data scientists analyzing biological or genomic data with R. It is also relevant to users who need package-based methods and reproducible environments.
Pick GNU ELPA if…
GNU ELPA suits GNU Emacs users looking to browse and install packages, and contributors whose packages meet its licensing and free-software requirements.