Bioboxes: standardised containers for interchangeable bioinformatics software
Peter Belmann(Bielefeld University), Johannes Dröge(Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research), Andreas Bremges(Bielefeld University), Alice C. McHardy(Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research), Alexander Sczyrba(Bielefeld University), Michael D. Barton(Joint Genome Institute)
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Abstract
Software is now both central and essential to modern biology, yet lack of availability, difficult installations, and complex user interfaces make software hard to obtain and use. Containerisation, as exemplified by the Docker platform, has the potential to solve the problems associated with sharing software. We propose bioboxes: containers with standardised interfaces to make bioinformatics software interchangeable.
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