[iafiaf]

R is overwhelmingly used in bioinformatics. There is nothing quite like bioconductor. Most new tools/methods (for ex, in the scRNA-seq) release R packages first.

[asdff]

Well I'd say conda is quite like bioconductor with the ease of installing relevant packages. scRNAseq has popular r packages like seurat but also popular python packages like scanpy.

[fatboy93]

I didn't understand your comment, which is probably my fault.

But you can absolutely install many bioconductor packages from conda.

I love using conda as my environment manager rather than compiling and installing 1000p different libraries and tools.

Also, I install mamba for drastically faster resolution of the dependencies.