Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources

Jon Ison (1) , Hervé Ménager (2) , Bryan Brancotte (2) , Erik Jaaniso (3) , Ahto Salumets (3) , Tomáš Raček (4, 5) , Anna-Lena Lamprecht (6) , Magnus Palmblad (7) , Matúš Kalaš (8) , Piotr Chmura (9) , John M Hancock (10) , Veit Schwämmle (11) , Hans-Ioan Ienasescu (1)

1 Computerome - National Life Science Supercomputing Center [Kongens Lyngby, Denmark]
2 Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB
3 Institute of Computer Science [University of Tartu, Estonie]
4 CEITEC MU - Central European Institute of Technology [Brno]
5 FI / MUNI - Faculty of Informatics [Brno]
6 Department of Information and Computing Sciences [Utrecht]
7 CPM - Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics [Leiden]
8 UiB - Department of Informatics [Bergen]
9 CPR - Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
10 ELIXIR Hub [Cambridge]
11 SDU - University of Southern Denmark

The corpus of bioinformatics resources is huge and expanding rapidly, presenting life scientists with a growing challenge in selecting tools that fit the desired purpose. To address this, the European Infrastructure for Biological Information is supporting a systematic approach towards a comprehensive registry of tools and databases for all domains of bioinformatics, provided under a single portal (https://bio.tools). We describe here the practical means by which scientific communities, including individual developers and projects, through major service providers and research infrastructures, can describe their own bioinformatics resources and share these via bio.tools.

Keywords: bioinformatics; software; database; registry; curation; community driven

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM]

Jon Ison, Hervé Ménager, Bryan Brancotte, Erik Jaaniso, Ahto Salumets, et al.. Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2019, pp.bbz075. ⟨10.1093/bib/bbz075⟩. ⟨pasteur-02770716⟩