Together, the packages rentrez and taxize can extract standardised data on viruses and their hosts from genetic records.

• community
• packages
• taxonomy
• taxize
• epidemiology
• biology
• bioinformatics
• rentrez
• genbank
• genetics
• sars-cov-2
• covid-19

Introducing 3 new editors for rOpenSci software review

• Software Peer Review
• editors
• rOpenSci team

Updates in version 0.5.0 of the online book 'rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review'

• Software Peer Review
• dev guide

The medrxivr package allows users to import and search medRxiv and bioRxiv preprint metadata.

• Software Peer Review
• community
• packages
• medrxivr
• medrxiv
• biorxiv
• systematic-reviews
• bibliographic-database
• evidence-synthesis

Semi-monthly summary of the rOpenSci Newsletter, October 2020

• newsletter
• citecorp
• dittodb
• europepmc
• fulltext
• magick
• mapscanner
• mcbette
• medrxivr
• namext
• oai
• rAltmetric
• rbace
• rcrossref
• refsplitr
• rentrez
• rgnparser
• rtweet
• treedata.table
• roadoi