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bio.tools registry (2019)

Reference

Citation: Ison, J. et al. "The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences." Genome Biology 20, 164 (2019). Type: tool. Link: doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1772-6.

What it is

A registry that catalogues life-science software tools and data resources through shared, standardised metadata. It keeps many heterogeneous tools discoverable in one place.

Role in the record

  • Grounds BP02: a light generic registry keeping many tools discoverable through shared metadata (life-science instance).

Atom-level for/against detail and quotes are in the provenance data (assets/provenance.yml), keyed by practice atom.

Discussion