Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences

Bjorn Grüning (1) , Ryan Dale (2) , Andreas Sjödin (3, 4) , Brad Chapman (5) , Jillian Rowe (6) , Christopher Tomkins-Tinch (7) , Renan Valieris (8) , Johannes Köster (9) , Bioconda Team

1 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
3 FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency [Stockholm]
4 Umeå University
5 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
6 New York University [Abu Dhabi]
7 Harvard University [Cambridge]
8 Hospital Camargo Sao Paulo
9 University of Duisburg-Essen

To the Editor: Bioinformatics software comes in a variety of programming languages and requires diverse installation methods. This heterogeneity makes management of a software stack complicated, error-prone, and inordinately time-consuming.

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

Bjorn Grüning, Ryan Dale, Andreas Sjödin, Brad Chapman, Jillian Rowe, et al.. Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences. Nature Methods, 2018, 15 (7), pp.475-476. ⟨10.1038/s41592-018-0046-7⟩. ⟨pasteur-02926292⟩