Bioconductor projects funded by CZI EOSS Cycle 6

We are delighted to share the news that five Bioconductor projects were funded as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS Funding Cycle 6.

Interactive Map of Bioconductor CZI EOSS6 Collaborators

Delivering High-Quality Bioconductor Training for a Worldwide Community
To expand the global Bioconductor-Carpentries training program, increase equity and accessibility using culturally sensitive AI translation, and build capacity for workshops in Africa.
Leads: Aedin Culhane (University of Limerick) and Maria Doyle (University of Limerick).
Collaborators: Laurent Gatto (Institut de Duve), Charlotte Soneson (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research), Kozo Nishida (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Trushar Shah (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture), Umar Ahmad (Bauchi State University), Zedias Chikwambi (African Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology).
Project links: Bioconductor education group
Supporting and Sustaining Bioconductor Developers
To champion Bioconductor developers through better community and technical infrastructure, accessibility of documentation, support for developer working groups, and cross-community collaborations.
Leads: Maria Doyle (University of Limerick) and Aedin Culhane (University of Limerick).
Collaborators: Lori Shepherd (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center), Vince Carey (Harvard Medical School), Robert Shear (Harvard Medical School), Sean Davis (University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine)
GPU-accelerated Computing in Bioconductor
To support GPU-accelerated Bioconductor packages through continuous integration, user-friendly packaging of system-level dependencies, and foundational packages for Bioconductor GPU programming.
Leads: Levi Waldron (CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy) and Davide Risso (University of Padua).
Collaborators: Gabriele Sales (University of Padua)
Ontological Resource Tagging and Discovery for Bioconductor
To enhance discoverability and use of Bioconductor packages and data and teaching resources by tagging them with formal vocabulary and concept relations in ontologies like EDAM.
Lead: Vincent Carey (Harvard Medical School).
Collaborators: Claire Rioualen (Institut Français de Bioinformatique), Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur and Institut Français de Bioinformatique), Maria Doyle (University of Limerick), Lori Shepherd-Kern (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center), Hervé Pages (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center).
Project links: Bioconductor EDAM collaboration working group
Opening Omics Data Science to All with Tidyomics
To administer and expand the scope of the Tidyomics Project, enabling computational biologists to employ a user-friendly grammar to manipulate rich biological datasets across omics and platforms. Note: This proposal was funded by Wellcome Trust as part of the co-funded EOSS Cycle 6.
Leads: Michael Love (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) and Stefano Mangiola (SAiGENCI, University of Adelaide).
Collaborators: Dozens of collaborating developers listed on tidyomics GitHub.
Project links: https://github.com/tidyomics

More details on the projects will be shared in future posts. Stay tuned!