Technical Advisory Board
The Technical Advisory Board purpose is to support the Bioconductor mission by
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Developing strategies to ensure long-term technical suitability of core infrastructure for the Bioconductor mission. Core infrastructure includes: all aspects of package addition, management, and distribution; end-user engagement (e.g., web, support site, and slack); developer support; and development of packages for use by the broader developer community.
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Identifying and pursuing technical and scientific aspects of funding strategies for long-term viability of Bioconductor.
The Technical Advisory Board governance document (PDF) outlines membership, procedures, and committees and working groups of the board. Governance was formalized in February, 2019.
Current members
- Vince Carey, Brigham & Women’s, Harvard Medical School, USA. Chair.
- Levi Waldron CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY. Vice-Chair.
- Charlotte Soneson, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland. Secretary.
- Aedin Culhane, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, USA.
- Hector Corrada Bravo, Genentech Research and Early Development, USA.
- Laurent Gatto Institut de Duve, Belgium.
- Robert Gentleman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
- Shila Ghazanfar, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge.
- Kasper Daniel Hansen, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
- Stephanie Hicks Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
- Wolfgang Huber European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Rafael Irizarry Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
- Aaron Lun, Genentech Research and Early Development, USA.
- Michael Love, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.
- Martin Morgan, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Meeting minutes
The Technical Advisory Board meets monthly. Minutes of the last meeting are made available after being approved by the board on the following meeting. The first meeting for which public minutes were maintained was on 2 May, 2019.
