Bioinformaticians and biologists rely increasingly upon workflows for the flexible utilization of the many life science tools that are needed to optimally convert data into knowledge. We outline a pan-European enterprise to provide a catalogue ( https://bio.tools ) of tools and databases that can be used in these workflows. bio.tools not only lists where to find resources, but also provides a wide variety of practical information.

Aix Marseille Univ INSERM lab Theory and Approaches of Genome Complexity Marseille France

Barcelona Supercomputing Centre 08034 Barcelona Spain

Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences Science for Life Laboratory Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University S 75124 Uppsala Sweden

Biomedical Sciences Research Centre Alexander Fleming 34 Al Fleming Str 16672 Vari Greece

CEITEC Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Brno Kamenice 5 625 00 Brno Bohunice Czech Republic

CNRS UMS 3601 Institut Français de Bioinformatique IFB core 2 rue Gaston Crémieux F 91000 Evry France

Computational Biology Unit Department of Informatics University of Bergen N 5020 Bergen Norway

CSC IT Center for Science PO BOX 405 FI 02101 Espoo Finland

Department of Bio and Health Informatics Technical University of Denmark Building 208 DK 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55 5230 Odense Denmark

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine University of Barcelona INB BSC CNS Barcelona Spain

Department of Biosciences University of Milano Via Celoria 26 Milan Italy

Department of Computer Science Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Georges Köhler Allee 106 79110 Freiburg Germany

Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences Jaarbeursplein 6 3521 AL Utrecht The Netherlands

ELIXIR EE Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu J Liivi 2 Tartu Estonia

ELIXIR Hub Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK

Faculty of Medicine ELIXIR SI University of Ljubljana Vrazov trg 2 SI 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

Hub de Bioinformatique et de Biostatistiques Institut Pasteur C3BI USR 3756 IP CNRS Paris France

INESC ID Instituto Superior Técnico R Alves Redol 9 Lisbon Portugal

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats Pg Lluıs Companys 23 08010 Barcelona Spain

Institute of Biomembranes Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies National Research Council via Amendola 165 A Bari Italy

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo namesti 2 160 00 Prague Czech Republic

National Life Science Supercomputing Center Technical University of Denmark Building 208 DK 2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen DK 2200 Copenhagen Denmark

Plateforme GenOuest Univ Rennes Inria CNRS IRISA F 35000 Rennes France

Radboud University Medical Centre CMBI Postbus 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen Netherlands

School of Computer Science The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Quartier Sorge Batiment Amphipole CH 1015 Lausanne Switzerland

The EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK

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The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences