Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences.

Guy YachdavTatyana GoldbergSebastian WilzbachDavid DaoIris ShihSaket ChoudharySteve CrouchMax FranzAlexander GarcíaLeyla J GarcíaBjoern Andreas GrueningDevasena InupakutikaIan SillitoeAnil S ThankiBruno VieiraJosé M VillavecesMaria V SchneiderSuzanna LewisSteve PettiferBurkhard RostManuel Corpas

Published in: eLife (2015)

BioJS is an open source software project that develops visualization tools for different types of biological data. Here we report on the factors that influenced the growth of the BioJS user and developer community, and outline our strategy for building on this growth. The lessons we have learned on BioJS may also be relevant to other open source software projects.

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