In the world of Bioinformatics, R has been the tool of choice for a long time due to packages like Bioconductor [1], which has been around since 2001. ---- 1.

In the world of Bioinformatics, R has been the tool of choice for a long time due to packages like Bioconductor [1], which has been around since 2001. ---- 1. http://www.bioconductor.org/ http://www.bioconductor.org/