Bioconda: A sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences

Publishing date: 2017-10-27

Published on: bioRxiv

summary: Björn Grüning and colleagues here present Bioconda (https://bioconda.github.io), a distribution of bioinformatics software for the lightweight, multi-platform and language-agnostic package manager Conda. Currently, Bioconda offers a collection of over 3000 software packages, which is continuously maintained, updated, and extended by a growing global community of more than 200 contributors. Bioconda improves analysis reproducibility by allowing users to define isolated environments with defined software versions, all of which are easily installed and managed without administrative privileges.

authors: Björn Grüning, Ryan Dale, Andreas Sjödin, Jillian Rowe, Brad A. Chapman, Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch, Renan Valieris, The Bioconda Team, Johannes Köster

link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/207092

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