Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources

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Authors	ISON Jon MÉNAGER Hervé BRYAN Brancotte JAANISO Erik SALUMETS Ahto RAČEK Tomáš LAMPRECHT Anna-Lena PALMBLAD Magnus KALAŠ Matúš CHMURA Piotr HANCOCK John M SCHWÄMMLE Veit IENASESCU Hans-Ioan
Year of publication	2020
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Briefings in Bioinformatics
MU Faculty or unit	Central European Institute of Technology
Citation
Web	https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbz075
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbz075
Keywords	bioinformatics; software; database; registry; curation; community driven
Description	The corpus of bioinformatics resources is huge and expanding rapidly, presenting life scientists with a growing challenge in selecting tools that fit the desired purpose. To address this, the European Infrastructure for Biological Information is supporting a systematic approach towards a comprehensive registry of tools and databases for all domains of bioinformatics, provided under a single portal (https://bio.tools). We describe here the practical means by which scientific communities, including individual developers and projects, through major service providers and research infrastructures, can describe their own bioinformatics resources and share these via bio.tools.