BiotoolsSchema: a formalized schema for bioinformatics software description.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life scientists routinely face massive and heterogeneous data analysis tasks and must find and access the most suitable databases or software in a jungle of web-accessible resources. The diversity of information used to describe life-scientific digital resources presents an obstacle to their utilization. Although several standardization efforts are emerging, no information schema has been sufficiently detailed to enable uniform semantic and syntactic description-and cataloguing-of bioinformatics resources.

Findings

Here we describe biotoolsSchema, a formalized information model that balances the needs of conciseness for rapid adoption against the provision of rich technical information and scientific context. biotoolsSchema results from a series of community-drive

SUBMITTER: Ison J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7842104 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature