eLife (Jul 2015)
Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences
- Guy Yachdav,
- Tatyana Goldberg,
- Sebastian Wilzbach,
- David Dao,
- Iris Shih,
- Saket Choudhary,
- Steve Crouch,
- Max Franz,
- Alexander García,
- Leyla J García,
- Björn A Grüning,
- Devasena Inupakutika,
- Ian Sillitoe,
- Anil S Thanki,
- Bruno Vieira,
- José M Villaveces,
- Maria V Schneider,
- Suzanna Lewis,
- Steve Pettifer,
- Burkhard Rost,
- Manuel Corpas
Affiliations
- Guy Yachdav
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- Tatyana Goldberg
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- Sebastian Wilzbach
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- David Dao
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- Iris Shih
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- Saket Choudhary
- ORCiD
- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
- Steve Crouch
- Web and Internet Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Max Franz
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Alexander García
- Linkingdata I/O LLC, Austin, United States
- Leyla J García
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Björn A Grüning
- ORCiD
- Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Devasena Inupakutika
- Web and Internet Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Ian Sillitoe
- Institute of Structure and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Anil S Thanki
- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Bruno Vieira
- ORCiD
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
- José M Villaveces
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Planegg, Germany
- Maria V Schneider
- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Suzanna Lewis
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
- Steve Pettifer
- School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Burkhard Rost
- Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
- Manuel Corpas
- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07009
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4
Abstract
BioJS is an open source software project that develops visualization tools for different types of biological data. Here we report on the factors that influenced the growth of the BioJS user and developer community, and outline our strategy for building on this growth. The lessons we have learned on BioJS may also be relevant to other open source software projects.
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