• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...