Register

Including your software in a registry instantly makes it more findable, and lets you annotate according to best practice metadata standards.

How?

Select a registry based on the type of software you want to register. If you aren’t sure, you can use resources like re3data (GFZ German Research Centre For Geosciences et al., 2013), FAIRsharing (Sansone et al., 2019) or Awesome Research Software Registries list to search for a suitable registry.

For example, you can search FAIRsharing for workflows.

You can also find a selection of suitable registries listed in the examples section below.

Examples

Analytical tools, biological databases and data services

• bio.tools (Ison et al., 2019)
• SciCrunch (FDI Lab - SciCrunch.org \Textbar Welcome…, n.d.)
• Bioconductor (Huber et al., 2015)
• BioJS (BioJS, n.d.)
• BioImage Informatics Index
• BIOCONDA

Containers

• BioContainers (Da Veiga Leprevost et al., 2017)

Scientific computational workflows, containers

• WorkflowHub (Goble et al., 2021)
• Dockstore (Yuen et al., 2021)

References

1. GFZ German Research Centre For Geosciences, Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Germany Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology (KIT), Purdue University Libraries, Bertelmann, R., Buys, M., Cousijn, H., Dierolf, U., Elger, K., Fenner, M., Ferguson, L. M., Fritze, F., Fuchs, C., Goebelbecker, H.-J., Gundlach, J., Kindling, M., Kloska, G., Klump, J., Kramer, C., … van de Sandt, S. (2013). Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R3D
2. Sansone, S.-A., McQuilton, P., Rocca-Serra, P., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., Izzo, M., Lister, A. L., Thurston, M., & the FAIRsharing Community. (2019). FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies. Nature Biotechnology, 37(4), 358–367. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0080-8
3. Ison, J., Ienasescu, H., Chmura, P., Rydza, E., Ménager, H., Kalaš, M., Schwämmle, V., Grüning, B., Beard, N., Lopez, R., Duvaud, S., Stockinger, H., Persson, B., Vařeková, R. S., Raček, T., Vondrášek, J., Peterson, H., Salumets, A., Jonassen, I., … Brunak, S. (2019). The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences. Genome Biology, 20(1), 164. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1772-6
4. FDI Lab - SciCrunch.org \textbar Welcome... Retrieved November 14, 2023, from https://scicrunch.org/
5. Huber, W., Carey, V. J., Gentleman, R., Anders, S., Carlson, M., Carvalho, B. S., Bravo, H. C., Davis, S., Gatto, L., Girke, T., Gottardo, R., Hahne, F., Hansen, K. D., Irizarry, R. A., Lawrence, M., Love, M. I., MacDonald, J., Obenchain, V., Oleś, A. K., … Morgan, M. (2015). Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor. Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3252
6. BioJS. Retrieved November 14, 2023, from https://biojs.net/#/
7. Da Veiga Leprevost, F., Grüning, B. A., Alves Aflitos, S., Röst, H. L., Uszkoreit, J., Barsnes, H., Vaudel, M., Moreno, P., Gatto, L., Weber, J., Bai, M., Jimenez, R. C., Sachsenberg, T., Pfeuffer, J., Vera Alvarez, R., Griss, J., Nesvizhskii, A. I., & Perez-Riverol, Y. (2017). BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization. Bioinformatics, 33(16), 2580–2582. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192
8. Goble, C., Soiland-Reyes, S., Bacall, F., Owen, S., Williams, A., Eguinoa, I., Droesbeke, B., Leo, S., Pireddu, L., Rodríguez-Navas, L., Fernández, J. M., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Ménager, H., Grüning, B., Serrano-Solano, B., Ewels, P., & Coppens, F. (2021). Implementing FAIR Digital Objects in the EOSC-Life Workflow Collaboratory. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4605654
9. Yuen, D., Cabansay, L., Duncan, A., Luu, G., Hogue, G., Overbeck, C., Perez, N., Shands, W., Steinberg, D., Reid, C., Olunwa, N., Hansen, R., Sheets, E., O’Farrell, A., Cullion, K., O’Connor, B. D., Paten, B., & Stein, L. (2021). The Dockstore: enhancing a community platform for sharing reproducible and accessible computational protocols. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(W1), W624–W632. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab346

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