Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences

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.

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Computational biologySoftwareComputer scienceDistribution (mathematics)Data scienceBiologyMathematicsProgramming language

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Computational BiologySoftwareUser-Computer Interface

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Year: 2018
Type: letter
Volume: 15
Issue: 7
Pages: 475-476
Citations: 1658
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                                    Björn Grüning, 
                                
                                    Ryan Dale, 
                                
                                    Andreas Sjödin
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences. 
                            Nature Methods
                            , 15
                            (7)
                            , 475-476.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0046-7
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41592-018-0046-7
PMID: 29967506
PMCID: PMC11070151

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