Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software

Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software

Software is now both central and essential to modern biology, yet lack of availability, difficult installations, and complex user interfaces make software hard to obtain and use. Containerisation, as exemplified by the Docker platform, has the potential to solve the problems associated with sharing...

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Veröffentlicht in:GigaScience 2015-10, Vol.4 (1), p.47-47, Article 47
Hauptverfasser: Belmann, Peter, Dröge, Johannes, Bremges, Andreas, McHardy, Alice C, Sczyrba, Alexander, Barton, Michael D
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Sprache:eng
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Bioinformatics
Biologists
Biology
Computational Biology
Containers
Genomes
Genomics
Interfaces
Researchers
Software
Technology application
User interfaces
Web sites
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Zusammenfassung:Software is now both central and essential to modern biology, yet lack of availability, difficult installations, and complex user interfaces make software hard to obtain and use. Containerisation, as exemplified by the Docker platform, has the potential to solve the problems associated with sharing software. We propose bioboxes: containers with standardised interfaces to make bioinformatics software interchangeable.
ISSN:2047-217X
2047-217X
DOI:10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0