Journal article
Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark1
National Institute for Agronomic Research2
Masaryk University3
University of Bologna4
University of Rome Tor Vergata5
Flanders Institute for Biotechnology6
CRS4-Bioinformatics Laboratory7
University of Milan - Bicocca8
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics9
Bielefeld University10
Technical University of Munich11
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark12
French Institute of Bioinformatics13
University of Freiburg14
University of Ljubljana15
Chinese University of Hong Kong16
University of Padua17
Bioinformatics Research Centre18
Daresbury Laboratory19
University of Lübeck20
University of Tartu21
Imperial College London22
Institut Pasteur23
San Martino Hospital Genoa24
University of Southern Denmark25
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics26
Central European Institute of Technology27
Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares28
University of Rome La Sapienza29
University of Milan30
Radboud University Nijmegen31
University of Bergen32
University of Copenhagen33
University of Manchester34
Palacký University Olomouc35
European Bioinformatics Institute36
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology37
...and 27 moreLife sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these discoveries, a plethora of databases and tools are deployed, in technically complex and diverse implementations, across a spectrum of scientific disciplines.
The corpus of documentation of these resources is fragmented across the Web, with much redundancy, and has lacked a common standard of information. The outcome is that scientists must often struggle to find, understand, compare and use the best resources for the task at hand.Here we present a community-driven curation effort, supported by ELIXIR-the European infrastructure for biological information-that aspires to a comprehensive and consistent registry of information about bioinformatics resources.
The sustainable upkeep of this Tools and Data Services Registry is assured by a curation effort driven by and tailored to local needs, and shared amongst a network of engaged partners.As of September 2015, the registry includes 1633 resources, with depositions from 91 individual registrations including 40 institutional providers and 51 individuals.
With community support, the registry can become a standard for dissemination of information about bioinformatics resources: we welcome everyone to join us in this common endeavour. The registry is freely available at https://bio.tools.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | D38-D47 |
| ISSN: | 13624962 and 03051048 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkv1116 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0003-0316-5866 , 0000-0002-2627-0231 , 0000-0002-3991-0859 and 0000-0003-4525-7793 |
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