About
ToolFinder’s purpose is to present a landscape view of bioinformatics software packages & tools installed across Australian national computational infrastructures, including:
- Gadi and Australian BioCommons Tools and Workflows repository at NCI (project
if89
) at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) - Setonix at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Pawsey)
- Bunya at Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) / QRISCloud
- Galaxy Australia
ToolFinder also:
- Presents relevant metadata for each of these tools, which is sourced from bio.tools,
- Provides connections to other global registries as appropriate, and based on user feedback (e.g. BioContainers), and
- Provides, where possible, the ability to directly access (or
launch
) bioinformatics tools. The only current example of launching tools is for Galaxy Australia.
How was the list generated?
Please see the GitHub repository that compiles the ToolFinder metadata input for more details.
Please cite ToolFinder as follows
[Citation information goes here]
Tutorials
Please see these video tutorials available through the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel:
License
- ELIXIR Toolkit Theme: MIT License
- ToolFinder code: Apache License 2.0
Contributors
This resource would not be possible without the following contributors.
Alain-Dominique Gorse
Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), Brisbane, Queensland
Bert Droesbeke
Dale Roberts
National Computational Infrastructure, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Gareth Price
Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland
Jeffrey H Christiansen
Australian BioCommons, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) University of Queensland, University of Melbourne
Johan Gustafsson
Australian BioCommons, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Marco De La Pierre
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Perth, Western Australia
Minh Vu
Australian BioCommons, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales
Nigel Ward
Australian BioCommons, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland
Sarah Beecroft
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Perth, Western Australia
Uwe Winter
Australian BioCommons, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Acknowledgements / citations / credits
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the Australian BioCommons via funding from Bioplatforms Australia and the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF) programme. Bioplatforms Australia is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
ToolFinder makes use of the ELIXIR toolkit theme
References
- Metadata integration for ToolFinder service: https://github.com/AustralianBioCommons/australianbiocommons.github.io
- Tool metadata source: bio.tools API, Ison, J. et al. (2015). Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources. Nucleic Acids Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1116
- Ontology used: EDAM, Ison, J., Kalaš, M., Jonassen, I., Bolser, D., Uludag, M., McWilliam, H., Malone, J., Lopez, R., Pettifer, S. and Rice, P. 2013. EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats. Bioinformatics, 29(10): 1325-1332. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt113 PMID: 23479348 Open Access