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

MOTIVATION: BioContainers (biocontainers.pro) is an open-source and community-driven framework which provides platform independent executable environments for bioinformatics software. BioContainers allows labs of all sizes to easily install bioinformatics software, maintain multiple versions of the same software and combine tools into powerful analysis pipelines. BioContainers is based on popular open-source projects Docker and rkt frameworks, that allow software to be installed and executed under an isolated and controlled environment. Also, it provides infrastructure and basic guidelines to create, manage and distribute bioinformatics containers with a special focus on omics technologies. These containers…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• EM
  European Molecular Biology Organization

  Award: ALTF 854-2015
• SN
  Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

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  Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

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  Norges Forskningsråd
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  Bergens Forskningsstiftelse
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  German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure

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  National Institutes of Health

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  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

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