The CombineArchive Toolkit - facilitating the transfer of research results

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  Dept. of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.514v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Computational Biology, Computational Science
Keywords
COMBINE Archive, Collaborative Research, Reproducible Results
Copyright
© 2014 Scharm et al.
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Scharm M, Wendland F, Peters M, Wolfien M, Theile T, Waltemath D. 2014. The CombineArchive Toolkit - facilitating the transfer of research results. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e514v1

Abstract

Sharing in silico experiments is essential for the advance of research in computational biology. Consequently, the COMBINE archive was designed as a digital container format. It eases the management of numerous files, fosters collaboration, and ultimately enables the exchange of reproducible research results. However, manual handling of COMBINE archives is tedious and error prone. We therefore developed the CombineArchive Toolkit. It supports scientists in promoting and publishing their work by means of creating, exploring, modifying, and sharing archives.

Author Comment

We developed the CombineArchive Toolkit. It consists of a core library, a desktop application, and a web based interface. Taken together, our tools support researchers in creating and exploring COMBINE archives.