Boutiques: a flexible framework to integrate command-line applications in computing platforms

We present Boutiques, a system to automatically publish, integrate, and execute command-line applications across computational platforms. Boutiques applications are installed through software containers described in a rich and flexible JSON language. A set of core tools facilitates the construction,...

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Published in:Gigascience Vol. 7; no. 5
Main Authors: Glatard, Tristan, Kiar, Gregory, Aumentado-Armstrong, Tristan, Beck, Natacha, Bellec, Pierre, Bernard, Rémi, Bonnet, Axel, Brown, Shawn T, Camarasu-Pop, Sorina, Cervenansky, Frédéric, Das, Samir, Ferreira da Silva, Rafael, Flandin, Guillaume, Girard, Pascal, Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J, Guttmann, Charles R G, Hayot-Sasson, Valérie, Quirion, Pierre-Olivier, Rioux, Pierre, Rousseau, Marc-Étienne, Evans, Alan C
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.05.2018
Subjects:
Applications programs
Bioinformatics
Computer science
Operating systems
Redundancy
Reproducibility
Software engineering
Technical Note
ISSN:2047-217X, 2047-217X
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Summary:We present Boutiques, a system to automatically publish, integrate, and execute command-line applications across computational platforms. Boutiques applications are installed through software containers described in a rich and flexible JSON language. A set of core tools facilitates the construction, validation, import, execution, and publishing of applications. Boutiques is currently supported by several distinct virtual research platforms, and it has been used to describe dozens of applications in the neuroinformatics domain. We expect Boutiques to improve the quality of application integration in computational platforms, to reduce redundancy of effort, to contribute to computational reproducibility, and to foster Open Science.
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ISSN:2047-217X
2047-217X
DOI:10.1093/gigascience/giy016