BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192
• Publication Date: 2017-03-29T11:46:39Z
• Authors: Felipe da Veiga L...; Björn A Grüning; Saulo Alves Aflitos; Hannes L Röst; Julian Uszkoreit; Harald Barsnes; Marc Vaudel; Pablo Moreno; Laurent Gatto; Jonas Weber; Mingze Bai; Rafael C Jimenez; Timo Sachsenberg; Julianus Pfeuffer; Roberto Vera Alvarez; Johannes Griss; Alexey I Nesvizhskii; Yasset Perez-Riverol
• Keywords: Executable; DevOps; Software framework

BioContainers (biocontainers.pro) is an open-source and community-driven framework which provides platform independent executable environments for bioinformatics software. allows labs of all sizes to easily install software, maintain multiple versions the same software combine tools into powerful analysis pipelines. based on popular projects Docker rkt frameworks, that allow be installed executed under isolated controlled environment. Also, it infrastructure basic guidelines create, manage distribute containers with a special focus omics technologies. These can integrated more comprehensive pipelines different architectures (local desktop, cloud or HPC clusters).The freely available at github.com/BioContainers/[e-mail].