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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Autores principales: Belmann, Peter, Dröge, Johannes, Bremges, Andreas, McHardy, Alice C., Sczyrba, Alexander, Barton, Michael D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26473029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0
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Sumario: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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