BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization | Zendy

Felipe da Veiga Leprevost | Zendy; Björn Grüning | Zendy; Saulo Aflitos | Zendy; Hannes Röst | Zendy; Julian Uszkoreit | Zendy; Harald Barsnes | Zendy; Marc Vaudel | Zendy; Pablo Moreno | Zendy; Laurent Gatto | Zendy; Jonas Weber | Zendy; Mingze Bai | Zendy; Rafael C. Jiménez | Zendy; Timo Sachsenberg | Zendy; Julianus Pfeuffer | Zendy; Roberto Vera Alvarez | Zendy; Johannes Griss | Zendy; Alexey I. Nesvizhskii | Zendy; Yasset PérezRiverol | Zendy

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BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization

Author(s) -

Felipe da Veiga Leprevost,

Björn Grüning,

Saulo Aflitos,

Hannes Röst,

Julian Uszkoreit,

Harald Barsnes,

Marc Vaudel,

Pablo Moreno,

Laurent Gatto,

Jonas Weber,

Mingze Bai,

Rafael C. Jiménez,

Timo Sachsenberg,

Julianus Pfeuffer,

Roberto Vera Alvarez,

Johannes Griss,

Alexey I. Nesvizhskii,

Yasset PérezRiverol

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192

Subject(s) - executable , computer science , software , software engineering , cloud computing , open source software , open source , standardization , devops , software framework , focus (optics) , software deployment , operating system , software development , software construction , physics , optics

BioContainers (biocontainers.pro) is an open-source and community-driven framework which provides platform independent executable environments for bioinformatics software. BioContainers allows labs of all sizes to easily install bioinformatics software, maintain multiple versions of the same software and combine tools into powerful analysis pipelines. BioContainers is based on popular open-source projects Docker and rkt frameworks, that allow software to be installed and executed under an isolated and controlled environment. Also, it provides infrastructure and basic guidelines to create, manage and distribute bioinformatics containers with a special focus on omics technologies. These containers can be integrated into more comprehensive bioinformatics pipelines and different architectures (local desktop, cloud environments or HPC clusters).

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