Bio-packaging

If you are in any way interested in software packaging and deployment for bioinformatics you can meet like-minded people on the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) bio-packaging mailing list at

   http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bio-packaging

Here we discuss issues around packaging and deploying software: anything that concerns dependencies, multiple version support and/or reproducibility. The general idea is to come up with solutions we can share across environments and construct (shared) pipelines out of them.

Generic packaging systems

GNU Guix

GNU guix is a package manager for the Gnu/Linux operating system. Bioinformatics packages are constructed here. GNU Guix can be run inside any Linux distribution (it is distribution agnostic because all software installs under /gnu).

Language based packaging systems

Ruby biogems

• Biogems: http://biogems.info/

R CRAN

• http://cran.r-project.org/

Javascript

• node.js npm: https://www.npmjs.com
• javascript, bower: http://bower.io

Linux distributions and VMs

Debian Med

Debian Med contains a wide range of software packages target at Debian Linux and derivatives.

CloudBiolinux

CloudBioLinux offers genome analysis resources for cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2. The source code can be found here. CloudBiolinux uses a combination of Debian/Ubuntu packages with linuxbrew and self-compiled software.