Yasset Perez-Riverol; Laurent Gatto; Rui Wang; Timo Sachsenberg; Julian Uszkoreit; Felipe da Veiga Leprevost; Christian Fufezan; Tobias Ternent; Stephen J. Eglen; Daniel S. Katz; Tom J. Pollard; Alexander Konovalov; Robert M. Flight; Kai Blin; Juan Antonio Vizcaíno

“ Introduction Bioinformatics is a broad discipline in which one common denominator is the need to produce and/or use software that can be applied to biological data in different contexts. To enable and ensure the replicability and traceability of scientific claims, it is essential that the scientific publication, the corresponding datasets, and the data analysis are made publicly available [ [1] , [2] ] . ”

“ The rise of openly available software and source code alongside concomitant collaborative development is facilitated by the existence of several code repository services such as SourceForge, Bitbucket, GitLab, and GitHub, among others. ”