ExperimentHubData provides tools to add or modify resources in
Bioconductor’s ExperimentHub. This ‘hub’ houses curated data from courses,
publications or experiments. The resources are generally not files of raw data
(as can be the case in AnnotationHub) but instead are R / Bioconductor
objects such as GRanges, SummarizedExperiment, data.frame etc. Each resource
has associated metadata that can be searched through the ExperimentHub client interface.
ExperimentHub_dockerThe ExperimentHub_docker
offers an isolated test environment for inserting / extracting metadata records
in the ExperimentHub database. The README in the package explains how to
set up the Docker and inserting records is done with
ExperimentHub::addResources().
In general this level of testing should not be necessary when submitting
a package with new resources. The best way to validate record metadata is to
read inst/extdata/metadata.csv with ExperimentHubData::makeExperimentHubMetadata().
If that is successful the metadata are ready to go.