Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences

Björn Grüning, Ryan Dale, Andreas Sjödin, Brad A. Chapman, Jillian Rowe, Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch, Renan Valieris, Adam Caprez, Bérénice Batut, Mathias Haudgaard, Thomas Cokelaer, Kyle A. Beauchamp, Brent S. Pedersen, Youri Hoogstrate, Devon Ryan, Anthony Bretaudeau, Gildas Le Corguillé, Christian Brueffer, et al
July, 2018
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Abstract

We present Bioconda (https://bioconda.github.io), a distribution of bioinformatics software for the lightweight, multiplatform 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.

Type
Journal article
Publication
Nature Methods, 2018. 15(7):475–476
Bioconda Open Source Software Bioinformatics
Christian Brueffer
Christian Brueffer
Bioinformatician and Data Scientist

Freelance Bioinformatician and Data Scientist with interests including disease biology and diagnostics, particularly in cancer, and open source bioinformatics.