Bioconductor Lister

I explored the ecosystem around bioconductor.

Bioconductor is an open-source project that provides tools and software packages for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. BiocManager is an R package that serves as a utility for installing and managing packages from the Bioconductor project.

I dived into the source code of BiocManager and found this

As I previously mentioned, there are two ways to get the source code:

1. https://code.bioconductor.org/browse (2,233 origins): Each origin is a git repo with a branch for each Bioconductor release if this package was a part of it. So if Bioconductor x.y release has package A, the package A repo will have a branch x.y.

2. https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.17/: Get the packages as compressed files:

• https://www.bioconductor.org/js/versions.js
• Using Chrome DevTools, I found multiple other endpoints with a .js path but I made a guess and replaced .js with .json and it worked!
  • https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/json/3.17/tree.json
  • https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/json/3.17/bioc/packages.json
  • https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/json/3.17/data/annotation/packages.json
  • https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/json/3.17/data/experiment/packages.json
  • https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/json/3.17/workflows/packages.json

I think this looks good. So should I continue with the 2nd approach (obtaining compressed files) to create a lister for bioconductor packages?