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

Björn Grüning, Ryan Dale, Andreas Sjödin, Brad Chapman, Jillian Rowe, Christopher Tomkins-Tinch, Renan Valieris, Adam Caprez, Bérénice Batut, Mathias Haudgaard, Thomas Cokelaer, Kyle Beauchamp, Brent Pedersen, Youri Hoogstrate, Anthony Bretaudeau, Devon Ryan, Gildas Le Corguillé, Dilmurat Yusuf, Sebastian Luna-Valero, Rory KirchnerKarel Brinda, Thomas Wollmann, Martin Raden, Simon van Heeringen, Nicola Soranzo, Lorena Pantano, Zachary Charlop-Powers, Per Unneberg, Matthias De Smet, Marcel Martin, Greg Von Kuster, Tiago Antao, Milad Miladi, Kevin Thornton, Christian Brueffer, Marius van der Beek, Daniel Maticzka, Clemens Blank, Sebastian Will, Kévin Gravouil, Joachim Wolff, Manuel Holtgrewe, Jörg Fallmann, Vitor Piro, Ilya Shlyakhter, Ayman Yousif, Philip Mabon, Xiao-Ou Zhang, Wei Shen, Jennifer Cabral, Cristel Thomas, Eric Enns, Joseph Brown, Jorrit Boekel, Mattias de Hollander, Jerome Kelleher, Nitesh Turaga, Julian de Ruiter, Dave Bouvier, Simon Gladman, Saket Choudhary, Nicholas Harding, Florian Eggenhofer, Arne Kratz, Zhuoqing Fang, Robert Kleinkauf, Henning Timm, Peter Cock, Enrico Seiler, Colin Brislawn, Hai Nguyen, Endre Bakken Stovner, Philip Ewels, Matt Chambers, James Johnson, Emil Hägglund, Simon Ye, Roman Valls Guimera, Elmar Pruesse, Augustine Dunn, Lance Parsons, Rob Patro, David Koppstein, Elena Grassi, Inken Wohlers, Alex Reynolds, MacIntosh Cornwell, Nicholas Stoler, Daniel Blankenberg, Guowei He, Marcel Bargull, Alexander Junge, Rick Farouni, Mallory Freeberg, Sourav Singh, Daniel Bogema, Fabio Cumbo, Liang-Bo Wang, David Larson, Matthew Workentine, Upendra Kumar Devisetty, Sacha Laurent, Pierrick Roger, Xavier Garnier, Rasmus Agren, Aziz Khan, John Eppley, Wei Li, Bianca Katharina Stöcker, Tobias Rausch, James Taylor, Patrick Wright, Adam Taranto, Davide Chicco, Bengt Sennblad, Jasmijn Baaijens, Matthew Gopez, Nezar Abdennur, Iain Milne, Jens Preussner, Luca Pinello, Avi Srivastava, Aroon Chande, Philip Reiner Kensche, Yuri Pirola, Michael Knudsen, Ino de Bruijn, Kai Blin, Giorgio Gonnella, Oana Enache, Vivek Rai, Nicholas Waters, Saskia Hiltemann, Matthew Bendall, Christoph Stahl, Alistair Miles, Yannick Boursin, Yasset Perez-Riverol, Sebastian Schmeier, Erik Clarke, Kevin Arvai, Matthieu Jung, Tomás Di Domenico, Julien Seiler, Eric Rasche, Etienne Kornobis, Daniela Beisser, Sven Rahmann, Alexander Mikheyev, Camy Tran, Jordi Capellades, Christopher Schröder, Adrian Emanuel Salatino, Simon Dirmeier, Timothy Webster, Oleksandr Moskalenko, Gordon Stephen, Johannes Köster

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Abstract

We 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.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherbioRxiv
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Oct 21

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Bioinformatics (Computational Biology)
  • Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
  • Other Medical Sciences not elsewhere specified

Keywords

  • Bioinformatics
  • Bioinformatics tools
  • Computational biology
  • Software distribution

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