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overall strategy and issues for developing a replicable biodiversity observation network, ie BON in a BOX
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Open bbest opened 7 years ago

bbest commented 7 years ago

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bbest commented 7 years ago

In exploring names, found a project very aligned with my thinking on BON in a Box -- to create easy to launch Docker systems for analyzing biodiversity data:

Bioboxes.org, code at github.com/bioboxes

Software has proliferated in bioinformatics and so have the problems associated with it: missing or unobtainable code, difficult to install dependencies, unreproducible workflows, all with terrible user experiences. We have created bioboxes with the aim to make accessing and using bioinformatics software more simple and more easy.

A biobox is a Docker image where the input files, input parameters, and output files are specified so that every biobox of the same type has the same interface. The Docker platform, which bioboxes uses, makes it much simpler for developers to share their their bioinformatics tools. The bioboxes' standardised interface then makes swapping one tool for another much simpler because they have identical interfaces.