Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software

GigaScience

Michael D. Barton³  Alexander Sczyrba²  Alice C. McHardy¹  Andreas Bremges¹  Johannes Dröge¹  Peter Belmann² 

[1] Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, 38124, Germany;Faculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany;DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek 94598, CA, USA

关键词: Reproducibility;    Usability;    Standards;    Docker;    Software;    Bioinformatics;   

Others  :  1228422
DOI  :  10.1186/s13742-015-0087-0

 received in 2015-08-10, accepted in 2015-09-29,  发布年份 2015

【 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.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Belmann et al.

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