BioExcel Building Blocks, a software library for interoperable biomolecular simulation workflows

Abstract:

In the recent years, the improvement of software and hardware performance has made biomolecular simulations a mature tool for the study of biological processes. Simulation length and the size and complexity of the analyzed systems make simulations both complementary and compatible with other bioinformatics disciplines. However, the characteristics of the software packages used for simulation have prevented the adoption of the technologies accepted in other bioinformatics fields like automated deployment systems, workflow orchestration, or the use of software containers. We present here a comprehensive exercise to bring biomolecular simulations to the “bioinformatics way of working”. The exercise has led to the development of the BioExcel Building Blocks (BioBB) library. BioBB’s are built as Python wrappers to provide an interoperable architecture. BioBB’s have been integrated in a chain of usual software management tools to generate data ontologies, documentation, installation packages, software containers and ways of integration with workflow managers, that make them usable in most computational environments.

SEEK ID: https://workflowhub.eu/publications/2

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0177-4

Teams: BioBB Building Blocks

Publication type: Journal

Journal: Scientific Data

Citation: Sci Data 6(1),169

Date Published: 1st Dec 2019

Registered Mode: by DOI

Authors: Pau Andrio, Adam Hospital, Javier Conejero, Luis Jordá, Marc Del Pino, Laia Codo, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Carole Goble, Daniele Lezzi, Rosa M. Badia, Modesto Orozco, Josep Ll. Gelpi

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Andrio, P., Hospital, A., Conejero, J., Jordá, L., Del Pino, M., Codo, L., Soiland-Reyes, S., Goble, C., Lezzi, D., Badia, R. M., Orozco, M., & Gelpi, J. L. (2019). BioExcel Building Blocks, a software library for interoperable biomolecular simulation workflows. In Scientific Data (Vol. 6, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0177-4
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