Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software

被引：47

作者：

Belmann, Peter ^{[1
,2
]}

Droege, Johannes ^{[3
]}

Bremges, Andreas ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

McHardy, Alice C. ^{[3
]}

Sczyrba, Alexander ^{[1
,2
]}

Barton, Michael D. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bielefeld, Fac Technol, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany

[2] Univ Bielefeld, Ctr Biotechnol, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany

[3] Helmholtz Ctr Infect Res, Computat Biol Infect Res, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany

[4] DOE Joint Genome Inst, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA

来源：

GIGASCIENCE | 2015年 / 4卷

关键词：

Bioinformatics; Software; Docker; Standards; Usability; Reproducibility;

D O I：

10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0

中图分类号：

Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

090105 [作物生产系统与生态工程];

摘要：

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.

引用

页数：4

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