BioContainers Registry: Searching Bioinformatics and Proteomics Tools, Packages, and Containers

Overview

Journal J Proteome Res

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2021 Feb 24

PMID 33625229

Citations 16

Authors

Jingwen Bai

Chakradhar Bandla

Jiaxin Guo

Roberto Vera Alvarez

Mingze Bai

Juan Antonio Vizcaino

Pablo Moreno

Bjorn Gruning

Olivier Sallou

Yasset Perez-Riverol

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Abstract

BioContainers is an open-source project that aims to create, store, and distribute bioinformatics software containers and packages. The BioContainers community has developed a set of guidelines to standardize software containers including the metadata, versions, licenses, and software dependencies. BioContainers supports multiple packaging and container technologies such as Conda, Docker, and Singularity. The BioContainers provide over 9000 bioinformatics tools, including more than 200 proteomics and mass spectrometry tools. Here we introduce the BioContainers Registry and Restful API to make containerized bioinformatics tools more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). The BioContainers Registry provides a fast and convenient way to find and retrieve bioinformatics tool packages and containers. By doing so, it will increase the use of bioinformatics packages and containers while promoting replicability and reproducibility in research.

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