Bionitio: demonstrating and facilitating best practices for bioinformatics command-line software.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bioinformatics software tools are often created ad hoc, frequently by people without extensive training in software development. In particular, for beginners, the barrier to entry in bioinformatics software development is high, especially if they want to adopt good programming practices. Even experienced developers do not always follow best practices. This results in the proliferation of poorer-quality bioinformatics software, leading to limited scalability and inefficient use of resources; lack of reproducibility, usability, adaptability, and interoperability; and erroneous or inaccurate results.

Findings

We have developed Bionitio, a tool that automates the process of starting new bioinformatics software projects following recommended best practices. With a sing

SUBMITTER: Georgeson P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature