BioContainers

BioContainers is an open-source and community-driven framework that makes it easy for labs of any size to install, maintain and combine bioinformatics tools into powerful analysis pipelines. Built on popular open-source projects, Docker and rkt, it creates isolated and controlled environments for executing software and provides the infrastructure and guidelines for creating, managing and distributing containers tailored for omics technologies. These containers can be used in a variety of different architectures, from local desktops to cloud environments and HPC clusters.

Topic

Bioinformatics;Cheminformatics;Laboratory information management;Data management

Detail

  • Operation: Query and retrieval

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface;Web user interface

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  • License: Apache-2.0

  • Cost: Free

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  • Credit: National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Bergen Research Foundation and the Research Council of Norway, BMBF, US NIH BD2K grant, the BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger grant, EC Horizon 2020 grant.

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  • Contact: yperez@ebi.ac.uk

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Publications

  • BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization.
  • da Veiga Leprevost F, et al. BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization. BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization. 2017; 33:2580-2582. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192
  • PMID: 28379341
  • PMC: PMC5870671

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