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:10.12688/f1000research.3-55.v1

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

Affiliations

Manuel Corpas: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
Rafael Jimenez: European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Seth J Carbon: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Alex García: School of Library and Information Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Leyla Garcia: European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Tatyana Goldberg: TUM, Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 5748 Garching/ Munich, Germany
John Gomez: European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Alexis Kalderimis: Department of Genetics and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK
Suzanna E Lewis: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Ian Mulvany: eLife, Cambridge, CB2 1JP, UK
Aleksandra Pawlik: Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, Open University, UK, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
Francis Rowland: European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
Gustavo Salazar: Computational Biology Group, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Fabian Schreiber: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
Ian Sillitoe: Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Group Department of Biochemistry, University College London, London, UK
William H Spooner: Eagle Genomics Ltd, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK
Anil S. Thanki: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
José M Villaveces: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Germany
Guy Yachdav: Biosof LLC, New York, NY, 10001, USA
Henning Hermjakob: European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK

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

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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.

Bioinformatics

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ISSN: 2046-1402 (Online)
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science
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