European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
College of Bioinformation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.
J Proteome Res. 2021 Apr 2;20(4):2056-2061. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00904. Epub 2021 Feb 24.
BioContainers is an open-source project that aims to create, store, and distribute bioinformatics software containers and packages. The BioContainers community has developed a set of guidelines to standardize software containers including the metadata, versions, licenses, and software dependencies. BioContainers supports multiple packaging and container technologies such as Conda, Docker, and Singularity. The BioContainers provide over 9000 bioinformatics tools, including more than 200 proteomics and mass spectrometry tools. Here we introduce the BioContainers Registry and Restful API to make containerized bioinformatics tools more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). The BioContainers Registry provides a fast and convenient way to find and retrieve bioinformatics tool packages and containers. By doing so, it will increase the use of bioinformatics packages and containers while promoting replicability and reproducibility in research.
BioContainers 是一个开源项目，旨在创建、存储和分发生物信息学软件容器和软件包。BioContainers 社区已经制定了一套标准来规范软件容器，包括元数据、版本、许可证和软件依赖项。BioContainers 支持多种打包和容器技术，如 Conda、Docker 和 Singularity。BioContainers 提供了超过 9000 种生物信息学工具，包括 200 多种蛋白质组学和质谱工具。在这里，我们介绍了 BioContainers 注册表和 Restful API，以实现容器化生物信息学工具更易发现、可访问、可互操作和可重用（FAIR）。BioContainers 注册表提供了一种快速方便的方法来查找和检索生物信息学工具包和容器。通过这样做，它将增加生物信息学软件包和容器的使用，同时促进研究的可重复性和可再现性。
