October 18, 2016

Bioconductors:

We are pleased to announce Bioconductor 3.4, consisting of 1294 software packages, 309 experiment data packages, and 933 up-to-date annotation packages.

There are 100 new software packages, and many updates and improvements to existing packages; Bioconductor 3.4 is compatible with R 3.3, and is supported on Linux, 32- and 64-bit Windows, and Mac OS X.  This release will include an updated Bioconductor Amazon Machine Image[1] and Docker containers[2].

Visit http://bioconductor.org[3] for details and downloads.

[1]: http://bioconductor.org/help/bioconductor-cloud-ami/
[2]: http://bioconductor.org/help/docker/
[3]: http://bioconductor.org

Contents
--------

* Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.4
* New Software Packages
* NEWS from new and existing packages
* Deprecated and Defunct Packages

Getting Started with Bioconductor 3.4
======================================

To update to or install Bioconductor 3.4:

1. Install R 3.3 (>= 3.3.1 recommended).  Bioconductor 3.4 has been
   designed expressly for this version of R.

2. Follow the instructions at http://bioconductor.org/install/

New Software Packages
=====================

This section is too big to include here, see the full release announcement at 

  https://bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_4_release/

NEWS from new and existing packages
===================================

There is too much NEWS to include here, see the full release announcement at

  https://bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_4_release/

Deprecated and Defunct Packages
===============================

1 software package (betr) was marked as deprecated, to be removed in the next release.

17 previously deprecated software packages were removed from this release.