Automatic synthesis of bioconductor pipelines: a domain modeling challenge

GNU R is a widely used programming language and software environment for statistical data analysis and visualization. Bioconductor [1] is a collection of bioinformatics packages that extends R's standard range of functionality by comprehensive libraries of functions and meta-data predominantly for the anal- ysis of data from high-throughput genomics and molecular biology experiments, and additionally provides several example data sets that are useful for testing, benchmarking and demonstration purposes. Reference manuals and additional manuscripts provided with the packages at the Bioconductor web site describe a variety of data analysis procedures based on the available functionality.