New R-Ladies–Bioconductor collaboration!

We are excited to share a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor, two global communities committed to building diverse developer communities around the world.
R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. R-Ladies Global started in 2016 and has expanded to more than 200 chapters across 60+ countries worldwide, with 100K+ members. R-Ladies chapters work alongside other like-minded communities at local, regional, and global levels.
Bioconductor develops, supports, and disseminates free open-source software that facilitates rigorous and reproducible analysis of data from current and emerging biological assays. The organization is dedicated to building a diverse, collaborative, and welcoming community of developers and data scientists. To this end, they have periodically elected scientific, technical, and community advisory boards committed to the technical and community aspects of Bioconductor.
We are excited to begin a new initiative that aims to connect R-Ladies members who are also Bioconductor users or developers. This effort is designed as a key step towards bringing together passionate individuals committed to expanding diversity in the computational biology and bioinformatics developer space. This coincidence of interest between members of both communities has already manifested in several R-Ladies chapters organizing events related to Bioinformatics and several R-Ladies members being part of the Bioconductor community.
This announcement formalizes this spontaneous collaboration between the two communities. Here are a few concrete ways in which we want to get the ball rolling:
Get Involved
Excited to join us in this initiative? Here’s how you can get started:
We recently kicked off this journey with local networking in R-Ladies chapters worldwide (e.g., Aurora, Colorado) and an R-Ladies meetup in Michigan during BioC 2024, co-hosted with R-Ladies East Lansing (Michigan)!
We’re looking forward to building something great together. Let us know what you think, share your ideas, or just say hi!
This post was last edited on 4 August 2025.