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[edit] Why choose the Bioinformatics Organization?
The Bioinformatics Organization is an international organization that promotes open-access in the field of bioinformatics by providing free and open resources for research, development and education so that such resources can be further developed. The Organization has a Web-based collaborative development environment (CDE) for bioinformatics projects that are developed in the spirit of freedom and openness (e.g., a program is distributed under an OSI-approved license).
[edit] Collaborative Development Environment (CDE)
With our CDE, Bioinformatics.Org offers a cornucopia of services to developers:
- Advanced Web-based administrative tools providing easy maintenance for all aspects of your project:
- Bug-Tracking System
- Task Manager
- News System
- Discussion Forums
- Public Surveys
- File Release Management
- An SSH account that provides basic shell functions, your own crontab, and access to your HTTP directory
- A Web site for your project:
- URL: http://bioinformatics.org/<yourproject>
- Domain name hosting (mapping to our server)
- Apache mods, SSL, PHP4, Perl, Python and CGI support
- NEW: A wiki system installed by default
- Detailed Web site statistics (optional)
- Quota-less drive space (within reason)
- Access to the MySQL or PostgreSQL DBMS from your shell account and web server
- The Mailman mailing list manager
- Your own Subversion (NEW) and CVS modules with shell-level access
- A Web interface for examining Subversion and CVS modules
- Full read/write access to your own FTP directory, available anonymously to the outside world
- An email address for yourself:
- Address: <yourname>@bioinformatics.org
- IMAP4 access
- Or alias the addresses to your current address
[edit] General services
We also offer services for developer and non-developer alike:
- Bioinformatics.Org News Forum
- Popular mailing lists:
- BiO Bulletin Board
- Bioclusters
- Biodevelopers
- Molecular Visualization
- Various portal features (many under active development):
- Wiki FAQ and Encyclopedia
- Bookstore
- Calendar of bioinformatics events
- Polls
- A Jobs Forum (with Curriculum Vitae services under development)
- Internet-based tools for bioinformatics
- Most of which happen to be projects already based at Bioinformatics.Org
[edit] Bioinformatics.Org vs. SourceForge.net
Bioinformatics.Org currently runs an earlier version of the SourceForge system, but we distinguish ourselves in the following ways:
- Our focus is entirely on bioinformatics: We have tens of thousands of members with an interest in bioinformatics, making Bioinformatics.Org the largest international association in the field.
- We host Web-based, server-side software, including PHP support and CGI support for Python, Perl and binary Linux executables (C/C++, etc.).
- We host Web-based databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL support.
- Project members have shell-level access to Subversion, CVS, crontab and other resources.
- Shell account use is not limited to software development.
- Storage has no hard limit. We even host CD/DVD ISOs.
- Users have POP3, IMAP4 and shell-level access to email (webmail coming).
- We can accommodate special needs, because we are smaller and can keep track of members more easily. We also have much less traffic to bog down access.
- Bioinformatics.Org is non-profit, and even our resources are open-source.
[edit] New features
Bioinformatics.Org will soon be rolling out some new features:
- Bioinformatics special interest groups within the field of bioinformatics
- An improved collaborative development environment.
- A high degree of project categorization (ontologies) within the field of bioinformatics (SourceForge.net currently has one "bioinformatics" category)
Once logged into the system, you can register a new group. We invite you to do so today!
