Open source tools and toolkits for bioinformatics: significance, and where are we? Export

@article{citeulike:907402, abstract = {This review summarizes important work in open-source bioinformatics software that has occurred over the past couple of years. The survey is intended to illustrate how programs and toolkits whose source code has been developed or released under an Open Source license have changed informatics-heavy areas of life science research. Rather than creating a comprehensive list of all tools developed over the last 2-3 years, we use a few selected projects encompassing toolkit libraries, analysis tools, data analysis environments and interoperability standards to show how freely available and modifiable open-source software can serve as the foundation for building important applications, analysis workflows and resources.}, address = {Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. jason.stajich@duke.edu}, author = {Stajich, J. E. and Lapp, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {907402}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbl026}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/3/287}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16899494}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16899494}, doi = {10.1093/bib/bbl026}, issn = {1467-5463}, journal = {Brief Bioinform}, month = {September}, number = {3}, pages = {287--296}, posted-at = {2007-03-11 19:20:34}, priority = {5}, title = {Open source tools and toolkits for bioinformatics: significance, and where are we?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbl026}, volume = {7}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:907402 L3 - citeulike-article-id:907402 N2 - This review summarizes important work in open-source bioinformatics software that has occurred over the past couple of years. The survey is intended to illustrate how programs and toolkits whose source code has been developed or released under an Open Source license have changed informatics-heavy areas of life science research. Rather than creating a comprehensive list of all tools developed over the last 2-3 years, we use a few selected projects encompassing toolkit libraries, analysis tools, data analysis environments and interoperability standards to show how freely available and modifiable open-source software can serve as the foundation for building important applications, analysis workflows and resources. IS - 3 JF - Brief Bioinform SN - 1467-5463 AD - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. jason.stajich@duke.edu EP - 296 TI - Open source tools and toolkits for bioinformatics: significance, and where are we? VL - 7 SP - 287 AU - Stajich, JE AU - Lapp, H PY - 2006/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbl026 ER -