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
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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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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author Belmann, Peter
Dröge, Johannes
Bremges, Andreas
McHardy, Alice C.
Sczyrba, Alexander
Barton, Michael D.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-46072422015-10-16 Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software Belmann, Peter Dröge, Johannes Bremges, Andreas McHardy, Alice C. Sczyrba, Alexander Barton, Michael D. Gigascience Commentary 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. BioMed Central 2015-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4607242/ /pubmed/26473029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0 Text en © Belmann et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607242/
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