Join the team (post here to be added to the bioconda team)

[johanneskoester]

Everybody is welcome to contribute a package. Simply reply to this issue and you will be added to the bioconda team.

Edit: After you post here, we will email you an invitation through github to join the bioconda team. Click the link in that invitation in order to be added.

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[hyeshik]

Johannes,
This is a great idea! I often felt the need of an OS-independent package catalogue for computational biology that works within the user space. After few minutes of trial with Conda, I could agree that it's a wonderful platform for such system. I would like to contribute packages that I use as one in the team. I have an experience as a package maintainer (so-called ports committer) in the FreeBSD operating system for ~5 years in the early 2000s.

[johanneskoester]

Great! I have send you an invitation.

[daler]

Hi Johannes -
I'd like like help with this, too. I like the idea of having one obvious place to find and contribute bio-related conda packages. I already have a handful of conda packages that could be useful here (https://conda.binstar.org/daler).

[johanneskoester]

Hi Ryan!
Great to hear that! I have sent you an invitation. Feel free to add your packages!

[johanneskoester]

Btw Hyeshik, please also create an anaconda.org account so I can add you to the bioconda team over there, as well.

[daler]

FYI, https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbio-conda has a lot of conda packages already. I'm not sure how much of that is tied specifically to versions needed in the bcbio-* packages though.

[johanneskoester]

Good to know! Maybe we can invite Brad to migrate their stuff once we have reached a critical mass with Bioconda.

[hyeshik]

@johanneskoester Thank you! I just created an account on anaconda.org.

[johanneskoester]

Great. Added you!

[hyeshik]

@johanneskoester I seems that I don't have a permission to write the recipes github repo. Can I get one? Thank you!

[johanneskoester]

Of course. Sorry for that, does it work now?

[hyeshik]

It works. Thank you!

[dkoppstein]

@johanneskoester, I am enthusiastic about this idea as well, especially since I've been using wonky Makefiles to deal with software environments for my company =) I'd love to contribute in any way possible, although I don't have much experience with conda apart from being an end-user. My anaconda.org account is dkoppstein.

[johanneskoester]

Hi,
glad to hear that you want to join us, thanks! Conda packaging is really easy. Basically, it is just some metadata plus a shell script with the commands you would use if you install a tool manually.

[chapmanb]

Johannes;
This is a great initiative, thank you for putting it together. I'd love to contribute as well. We have a lot of packages prepared for bcbio dependencies and could happily move over to more community driven packaging:

https://anaconda.org/bcbio

It may also be worth getting in touch with the CGAT folks, who have a wide variety of conda tools as well:

https://anaconda.org/cgat

What Linux platform do you target builds for? In bcbio we need to support people running on older platforms so build everything in a CentOS5 docker container. We have a ready to run script that does this, only re-building new recipes that are missing from anaconda.org:

https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbio-conda#readme

Thanks again for organizing this.