bio.tools and EDAM - making it easier to find, understand and cite biological tools and software
Channel: Australian BioCommons
Date: 2022-06-24

bio.tools provides easy access to essential scientific and technical information about software, command-line tools, databases and services. It’s backed by ELIXIR, the European Infrastructure for Biological Information, and is being used in Australia to register software (e.g. Galaxy Australia, prokka). It underpins the information provided in the Australian BioCommons discovery service ToolFinder.

Hans Ienasescu and Matùš Kalaš join us to explain how bio.tools uses a community driven, open science model to create this collection of resources and how it makes it easier to find, understand, utilise and cite them. They'll delve into how bio.tools is using standard semantics (e.g. the EDAM ontology) and syntax (e.g. biotoolsSchema) to enrich the annotation and description of tools and resources. Finally, we’ll see how the community can contribute to bio.tools and take advantage of its key features to share and promote their own research software.

Speakers: 

Hans Ienasescu, Scientific Programmer / Data Administrator / Lead Curator Technical University of Denmark

Matúš Kalaš, Researcher, Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen

Who the webinar is for:

Life scientists, bioinformaticians and those seeking to use, develop and share research software, tools, databases and services as well as those interested in supporting the visibility of research software.This webinar was recorded on 21 June 2022.

The slides from this webinar are available as a PDF
https://zenodo.org/record/6758147

See upcoming webinars and workshops on our website:
https://www.biocommons.org.au/webinars-workshops

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