BioContainers Registry: Searching Bioinformatics and Proteomics Tools, Packages, and Containers
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: BioContainers is an open-source project that aims to create, store, and distribute bioinformatics software containers and packages. The BioContainers community has developed a set of guidelines to standardize software containers including the metadata, versions, licenses, and software dependencies. BioContainers supports multiple packaging and container technologies such as Conda, Docker, and Singularity. The BioContainers provide over 9000 bioinformatics tools, including more than 200 proteomics and mass spectrometry tools. Here we introduce the BioContainers Registry and Restful API to make containerized bioinformatics tools more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). The BioContainers Registry provides a fast and convenient way to find and retrieve bioinformatics tool packages and containers. By doing so, it will increase the use of bioinformatics packages and containers while promoting replicability and reproducibility in research.
Source: Journal of Proteome Research
Institutions: European Bioinformatics Institute, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information, University of Freiburg, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, Université de Rennes
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences., The PRIDE database: A proteomics data hub in the life sciences, European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing Access, G339059223, European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing Access, G3897232729, G5875395564, Institut français de bioinformatique, ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences., The PRIDE database: A proteomics data hub in the life sciences
OpenAlex ID: W3132558036