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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Published in:Gigascience Vol. 4; no. 1; p. 47
Main Authors: Belmann, Peter, Dröge, Johannes, Bremges, Andreas, McHardy, Alice C, Sczyrba, Alexander, Barton, Michael D
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Oxford University Press 15-10-2015
BioMed Central
Subjects:
Bioinformatics
Biologists
Biology
Computational Biology
Containers
Genomes
Interfaces
Researchers
Software
User interfaces
Web sites
Software
Docker
Reproducibility
Bioinformatics
Usability
Standards
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:2047-217X
2047-217X
DOI:10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0