Open source tools and toolkits for bioinformatics: significance, and where are we?

被引：32

作者：

Stajich, Jason E. ^{[1
]}

Lapp, Hilmar ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Plant & Microbial Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

来源：

BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS | 2006年 / 7卷 / 03期

关键词：

bioinformatics; open source; software; genomics;

D O I：

10.1093/bib/bbl026

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

This review summarizes important work in open-source bioinformatics software that has occurred over the past couple of years. The survey is intended to illustrate how programs and toolkits whose source code has been developed or released under an Open Source license have changed informatics-heavy areas of life science research. Rather than creating a comprehensive list of all tools developed over the last 2-3 years, we use a few selected projects encompassing toolkit libraries, analysis tools, data analysis environments and interoperability standards to show how freely available and modifiable open-source software can serve as the foundation for building important applications, analysis workflows and resources.

引用

页码：287 / 296

页数：10

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