News:Bioconductor packages now each have a DOI.
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DOIs are available for Bioconductor packages, one per package (no versions). All are of the form:

doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.PACKAGENAME

These DOIs resolve to the package landing page on Bioconductor.

https://doi.org/10.18129/B9.bioc.Biobase

The package names are case-insensitive. Feedback, ideas for how best to leverage them, and comments are welcome. 

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The DOI have been added to the top of the package landing pages if the DOI has been created. 

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Does the DOI resolve to package short URL in the form http://bioconductor.org/packages/Biobase such that it can be used with packages which have been newly added to devel but haven't made it to release yet?

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Yes, it resolves to https://bioconductor.org/packages/PACKAGENAME. Note the http(s), also.

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Another one: when are the DOIs assigned, are they available as soon as the package gets accepted and its landing page is created?

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I think that'll be the plan, but currently the process is manual (I believe?) and we're still working through the git transition.

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Yes, the process is currently kicked off manually. In addition, new DOIs and changes to existing ones can take some time to propagate to resolvers. 

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Great, I think it would be useful that the DOI is shown in the package landing page, ideally by fetching it from the package DESCRIPTION file, if such a field would be allowed.

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The DOI doesn't need to be added to the vignette; they all share the base identifier, plus package name, so the DOI can be inferred from DESCRIPTION Title:

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