The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences

Jon Ison (1) , Hans Ienasescu (1) , Piotr Chmura (2) , Emil Rydza (2) , Hervé Ménager (3) , Matúš Kalaš (4) , Veit Schwämmle (5) , Bjorn Grüning (6) , Niall Beard (7) , Rodrigo Lopez (8) , Severine Duvaud (9) , Heinz Stockinger (9) , Bengt Persson (10) , Radka Svobodová Vařeková (11) , Tomáš Raček (11) , Jiří Vondrášek (12) , Hedi Peterson (13) , Ahto Salumets (13) , Inge Jonassen (4) , Rob Hooft (14) , Tommi Nyrönen (15) , Alfonso Valencia (16) , Salvador Capella (17) , Josep Gelpí (17) , Federico Zambelli (18) , Babis Savakis (19) , Brane Leskošek (20) , Kristoffer Rapacki (1) , Christophe Blanchet (21) , Rafael Jimenez (22) , Arlindo Oliveira (23) , Gert Vriend (24) , Olivier Collin (25) , Jacques van Helden (26) , Peter Løngreen (1) , Søren Brunak (1)

1 DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark
2 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
3 Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB
4 UiB - University of Bergen
5 SDU - University of Southern Denmark
6 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
7 University of Manchester [Manchester]
8 EMBL-EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton]
9 SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [Lausanne]
10 Uppsala University
11 CEITEC MU - Central European Institute of Technology [Brno]
12 CAS - Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague]
13 University of Tartu
14 Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences [Utrecht]
15 CSC-IT - Center for Science
16 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
17 BSC - CNS - Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion
18 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
19 BSRC - Biomedical Sciences Research Centre Alexander Fleming [Vari, Greece]
20 University of Ljubljana
21 IFB-CORE - Institut Français de Bioinformatique - UMS CNRS 3601
22 ELIXIR Hub [Cambridge]
23 INESC-ID - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
24 Nijmegen Medical Centre [Nijmegen]
25 Plateforme bioinformatique GenOuest [Rennes]
26 TAGC - Theories and Approaches of Genomic Complexity

Bioinformaticians and biologists rely increasingly upon workflows for the flexible utilization of the many life science tools that are needed to optimally convert data into knowledge. We outline a pan-European enterprise to provide a catalogue ( https://bio.tools ) of tools and databases that can be used in these workflows. bio.tools not only lists where to find resources, but also provides a wide variety of practical information.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Quantitative Methods [q-bio.QM]

Jon Ison, Hans Ienasescu, Piotr Chmura, Emil Rydza, Hervé Ménager, et al.. The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences. Genome Biology, 2019, 20 (164), pp.1-4. ⟨10.1186/s13059-019-1772-6⟩. ⟨hal-02408472⟩