Charlotte Soneson wins Bioconductor Award 2021

Charlotte Soneson ( right ) at the virtual award ceremony - Charlotte Soneson, a member of the FMI Computational Biology platform, has been awarded the Bioconductor Award 2021 that recognizes outstanding contributions to the Bioconductor project and community. The Bioconductor project is one of the major software collections for bioinformatics and is used every day by tens-of-thousands of people worldwide. Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data and is a valuable platform for bioinformaticians worldwide. It uses the R statistical programming language, and is open source and open development. In 2020 the Bioconductor Community Awards were launched, annually recognizing four awardees who have each contributed to the project in an outstanding way. This year, Charlotte Soneson, a member of the FMI Computational Biology technology platform , is among the awardees. She is recognized for being an outstanding long-term contributor to the project, both in terms of package development and community contributions.