During December 2025, Xiaofei Zang developed packaging support for the Amaranth Assembler, a reference-based transcriptome assembler for single-cell RNA-seq, within the bioconda/bioconda-recipes repository. He authored the build scripts and metadata using bash and yaml, focusing on reproducibility and maintainability in the packaging workflow. By streamlining the packaging scope and removing unnecessary runtime dependencies, Xiaofei reduced container bloat and improved package management efficiency. His work leveraged skills in bioinformatics, build automation, and package management to enable reliable deployment of the assembler, addressing the need for robust, reproducible workflows in the bioinformatics software ecosystem.