F1000Research (Feb 2014)

BioJS: an open source standard for biological visualisation – its status in 2014 [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/2yy]

  • Manuel Corpas,
  • Rafael Jimenez,
  • Seth J Carbon,
  • Alex García,
  • Leyla Garcia,
  • Tatyana Goldberg,
  • John Gomez,
  • Alexis Kalderimis,
  • Suzanna E Lewis,
  • Ian Mulvany,
  • Aleksandra Pawlik,
  • Francis Rowland,
  • Gustavo Salazar,
  • Fabian Schreiber,
  • Ian Sillitoe,
  • William H Spooner,
  • Anil S. Thanki,
  • José M Villaveces,
  • Guy Yachdav,
  • Henning Hermjakob

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-55.v1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

Abstract

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BioJS is a community-based standard and repository of functional components to represent biological information on the web. The development of BioJS has been prompted by the growing need for bioinformatics visualisation tools to be easily shared, reused and discovered. Its modular architecture makes it easy for users to find a specific functionality without needing to know how it has been built, while components can be extended or created for implementing new functionality. The BioJS community of developers currently provides a range of functionality that is open access and freely available. A registry has been set up that categorises and provides installation instructions and testing facilities at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/tools/biojs/. The source code for all components is available for ready use at https://github.com/biojs/biojs.

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