Interested developers -- I added the start of a BiocParallel package to the
Bioconductor subversion repository and build system.
The package is mirrored on github to allow for social coding; I encourage people
to contribute via that mechanism.
https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel
The purpose is to help focus our efforts at developing appropriate parallel
paradigms. Currently the package Imports: parallel and implements pvec and
mclapply in a way that allows for operation on any vector or list supporting
length(), [, and [[ (the latter for mclapply). pvec in particular seems to be
appropriate for GRanges-like objects, where we don't necessarily want to extract
many thousands of S4 instances of individual ranges with [[.
Hopefully the ideas in the package can be folded back in to parallel as they
mature.
Martin
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Dr. Martin Morgan, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N.
PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109
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