Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences

• DOI: 10.7554/elife.07009
• Publication Date: 2015-07-08T15:37:11Z
• Authors: Guy Yachdav; Tatyana Goldberg; Sebastian Wilzbach; David Dao; Iris Shih; Saket Choudhary; Steve Crouch; Max Franz; Alexander García; Leyla J García; Björn A Grüning; Devasena Inupakutika; Ian Sillitoe; Anil S Thanki; Bruno Vieira; José M Villaveces; Maria V Schneider; Suzanna Lewis; Steve Pettifer; Burkhard Rost; Manuel Corpas
• Keywords: Open Science

BioJS is an open source software project that develops visualization tools for different types of biological data. Here we report on the factors influenced growth user and developer community, outline our strategy building this growth. The lessons have learned may also be relevant to other projects.