• The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences 

      Ison, Jon; Ienasescu, Hans-Ioan; Chmura, Piotr; Rydza, Emil; Ménager, Hervé; Kalaš, Matúš; Schwämmle, Veit; Grüning, Björn A.; Beard, Niall; Lopez, Rodrigo; Duvaud, Severine; Stockinger, Heinz; Persson, Bengt; Svobodová Vařeková, Radka; Raček, Tomáš; Vondrášek, Jiří; Peterson, Hedi; Salumets, Ahto; Jonassen, Inge; et al., +18 authors (total 37) (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-12)
      Bioinformaticians and biologists rely increasingly upon workflows for the flexible utilization of the many life science tools that are needed to optimally convert data into knowledge. We outline a pan-European enterprise ...
    • biotoolsSchema: a formalized schema for bioinformatics software description 

      Ison, Jon; Ienasescu, Hans; Rydza, Emil; Chmura, Piotr; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Gaignard, Alban; Schwämmle, Veit; van Helden, Jacques; Kalaš, Matúš; Ménager, Hervé (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      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 ...
    • BioXSD: the common data-exchange format for everyday bioinformatics web services 

      Kalaš, Matúš; Puntervoll, Pål; Joseph, Alexandre; Bartaševičiūtė, Edita; Töpfer, Armin; Venkataraman, Prabakar; Pettifer, Steve; Bryne, Jan Christian; Ison, Jon; Blanchet, Christophe; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Jonassen, Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)
      Motivation: The world-wide community of life scientists has access to a large number of public bioinformatics databases and tools, which are developed and deployed using diverse technologies and designs. More and more of ...
    • Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources 

      Ison, Jon; Ménager, Hervé; Brancotte, Bryan; Jaaniso, Erik; Salumets, Ahto; Raček, Tomáš; Lamprecht, Anna-Lena; Palmblad, Magnus; Kalaš, Matúš; Chmura, Piotr; Hancock, John M; Schwämmle, Veit; Ienasescu, Hans-Ioan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      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 ...
    • EDAM-bioimaging: the ontology of bioimage informatics operations, topics, data, and formats (update 2020) 

      Kalaš, Matúš; Plantard, Laure; Lindblad, Joakim; Jones, Martin; Sladoje, Nataša; Kirschmann, Moritz A.; Chessel, Anatole; Scholz, Leandro; Rössler, Fabianne; Nicolás Sáenz, Laura; Gómez de Mariscal, Estibaliz; Bogovic, John; Dufour, Alexandre; Heiligenstein, Xavier; Waithe, Dominic; Domart, Marie-Charlotte; Karreman, Matthia; Van de Plas, Raf; Haase, Robert; Hörl, David; Paavolainen, Lassi; Vrhovac Madunić, Ivana; Karaica, Dean; Muñoz-Barrutia, Arrate; Sampaio, Paula; Sage, Daniel; Munck, Sebastian; Golani, Ofra; Moore, Josh; Levet, Florian; Ison, Jon; Gaignard, Alban; Ménager, Hervé; Zhang, Chong; Miura, Kota; Colombelli, Julien; Paul-Gilloteaux, Perrine (Others, 2020)
      EDAM is a well-established ontology of operations, topics, types of data, and data formats that are used in bioinformatics and its neighbouring fields [1,2] . EDAM-bioimaging is an extension of EDAM dedicated to bioimage ...
    • EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats 

      Ison, Jon; Kalaš, Matúš; Jonassen, Inge; Bolser, Dan; Uludag, Mahmut; McWilliam, Hamish; Malone, James; Lopez, Rodrigo; Pettifer, Steve; Rice, Peter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Motivation: Advancing the search, publication and integration of bioinformatics tools and resources demands consistent machine-understandable descriptions. A comprehensive ontology allowing such descriptions is therefore ...
    • EDAM: the bioscientific data analysis ontology (update 2021) [version 1; not peer reviewed] 

      Black, Melissa; Lamothe, Lucie; Eldakroury, Hager; Kierkegaard, Mads; Priya, Ankita; Machinda, Anne; Singh Khanduja, Uttam; Patoliya, Drashti; Rathi, Rashika; Che Nico, Tawah Peggy; Umutesi, Gloria; Blankenburg, Claudia; Op, Anita; Chieke, Precious; Babatunde, Omodolapo; Laurie, Steve; Neumann, Steffen; Schwämmle, Veit; Kuzmin, Ivan; Hunter, Chris; Karr, Jonathan; Ison, Jon; Gaignard, Alban; Brancotte, Bryan; Ménager, Hervé; Kalaš, Matúš (Others, 2021)
      EDAM [1] is a domain ontology of data analysis and data management in bio- and other sciences, and science-based applications. It comprises concepts related to analysis, modelling, optimisation, and data life-cycle. ...
    • EDAM: the ontology of bioinformatics operations, topics, data, and formats (update 2020) 

      Kalaš, Matúš; Ménager, Hervé; Gaignard, Alban; Schwämmle, Veit; Ison, Jon (Others, 2020)
      Project website: http://edamontology.org Source code: https://github.com/edamontology/edamontology License: CC BY-SA 4.0 EDAM is an ontology of well-established, familiar concepts that are prevalent within bioinformatics, ...
    • The EMBRACE web service collection 

      Pettifer, Steve; Ison, Jon; Kalaš, Matúš; Thorne, David; McDermott, Philip; Jonassen, Inge; Ali, Liaquat; Fernandez, Jose M; Rodriguez, Jose M; Pisano, David G; Blanchet, Christophe; Uludag, Mahmut; Rice, Peter; Bartaseviciute, Edita; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Hekkelman, Maarten; Sand, Olivier; Stockinger, Heinz; Clegg, Andrew B; Bongcam-Rudloff, Eric; Salzemann, Jean; Breton, Vincent; Attwood, Teresa K; Cameron, Graham; Vriend, Gert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-05-10)
      The EMBRACE (European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education) web service collection is the culmination of a 5-year project that set out to investigate issues involved in developing and deploying web ...
    • Perspectives on automated composition of workflows in the life sciences [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] 

      Lamprecht, Anna-Lena; Palmblad, Magnus; Ison, Jon; Schwämmle, Veit; Al Manir, Mohammad Sadnan; Altintas, Ilkay; Baker, Christopher J. O.; Ben Hadj Amor, Ammar; Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador; Charonyktakis, Paulos; Crusoe, Michael R.; Gil, Yolanda; Goble, Carole; Griffin, Timothy J.; Groth, Paul; Ienasescu, Hans; Jagtap, Pratik; Kalaš, Matúš; Kasalica, Vedran; Khanteymoori, Alireza; Kuhn, Tobias; Mei, Hailiang; Ménager, Hervé; Möller, Steffen; Richardson, Robin A.; Robert, Vincent; Soiland-Reyes, Stian; Stevens, Robert; Szaniszlo, Szoke; Verberne, Suzan; Verhoeven, Aswin; Wolstencroft, Katherine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Scientific data analyses often combine several computational tools in automated pipelines, or workflows. Thousands of such workflows have been used in the life sciences, though their composition has remained a cumbersome ...
    • Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources 

      Ison, Jon; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Ménager, Hervé; Kalaš, Matúš; et al., 69 authors (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-03)
      Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these discoveries, a plethora of databases and tools ...
    • Using registries to integrate bioinformatics tools and services into workbench environments 

      Ménager, Hervé; Kalaš, Matúš; Rapacki, Kristoffer; Ison, Jon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      The diversity and complexity of bioinformatics resources presents significant challenges to their localisation, deployment and use, creating a need for reliable systems that address these issues. Meanwhile, users demand ...