Just for the record, we have working packages in our 'incubator': https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics/tree/master/gn/packages
We currently have the following packages created for http://genenetwork.org/ (some are written by Roel and Dennis, see the commit log): gn/packages/ruby.scm: bio-vcf gn/packages/ruby.scm: bio-table gn/packages/sparql-query.scm: sparql-query gn/packages/python.scm: python-flask-sqlalchemy gn/packages/python.scm: python2-flask-sqlalchemy gn/packages/python.scm: python-xlsxwriter gn/packages/python.scm: python2-xlsxwriter gn/packages/python.scm: python-rdflib-jsonld gn/packages/python.scm: python2-rdflib-jsonld gn/packages/python.scm: python-rdflib-4.2 gn/packages/python.scm: python2-rdflib-4.2 gn/packages/python.scm: python-avro gn/packages/python.scm: python2-avro gn/packages/python.scm: python-shellescape gn/packages/python.scm: python2-shellescape gn/packages/python.scm: python-mysqlclient gn/packages/python.scm: python2-mysqlclient gn/packages/python.scm: python2-htmlgen-gn gn/packages/python.scm: python2-pil gn/packages/python.scm: python2-piddle-gn gn/packages/python.scm: python2-parallel gn/packages/python.scm: python2-numarray gn/packages/mongodb.scm: mongodb gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-acepack gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-latticeextra gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-formula gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-hmisc gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-iterators gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-fastcluster gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-dynamictreecut gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-rcppeigen gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-matrix gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-graphics gn/packages/statistics.scm: r-lmmlite gn/packages/statistics.scm: pylmm-gn2 gn/packages/elixir.scm: elixir gn/packages/cwl.scm: python-cwltool gn/packages/cwl.scm: python2-cwltool gn/packages/cwl.scm: python-schema-salad gn/packages/cwl.scm: python2-schema-salad gn/packages/4store.scm: 4store Incomplete (but almost there) gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: arrayfire gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: glfw gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: clBLAS gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: clFFT gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: compute gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: ocl-icd gn/packages/arrayfire.scm: opencl-headers gn/packages/tcl.scm: environment-modules If anyone is interested to run with one of these in main line, feel free to help. Pj.