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Recommendations for the packaging and containerizing of bioinformatics software

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The backbone of research reproducibility - sustainable and flexible tool deployment
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Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub
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Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software
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An introduction to Docker for reproducible research
resolves10.1093/bioinformatics/btx192
BioContainers: an open-source and community-driven framework for software standardization
resolves10.1093/molbev/msy084
Biology Needs Evolutionary Software Tools: Let’s Build Them Right
resolves10.1101/207092
Bioconda: A sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences
resolves10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.05.016
OpenMS – A platform for reproducible analysis of mass spectrometry data
resolves10.1093/nar/gky379
The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2018 update
resolves10.1371/journal.pone.0177459
Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute
resolves10.1109/MS.2016.64
Microservices Architecture Enables DevOps: Migration to a Cloud-Native Architecture
resolves10.3389/fgene.2014.00199
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resolves10.1016/0376-8716(81)90037-5
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