Contributors Guide

Task management

All high-level tasks concering bio.tools are managed in sifterapp (moderated by Jon Ison): - https://biotools.sifterapp.com

If you’d like a sifterapp account, please email Jon).

Note

sifterapp is the primary means for technical coordination: collaborators are encouraged to browse tasks, review priorities, make comments and add new tasks. Bear in mind sifterapp is for high level tasks not fine-grained details!

bio.tools community site

GitHub is used for sharing code and data for all bio.tools-related projects:

• https://github.com/bio-tools/
• https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsschema
• https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsregistry
• https://github.com/edamontology/edamontology

Feature requests & issues

GitHub is used to track fine-grained issues and is the preferred way to make bio.tools feature requests, content suggestions, EDAM term requests, and bug reports:

• https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsregistry/issues
• https://github.com/bio-tools/biotoolsschema/issues
• https://github.com/edamontology/edamontology/issues

Mailing list

Please use the appropriate mailing list:

• registry for general discussions on bio.tools
• registry-support for questions and help on bio.tools
• edam for general discusion and help on EDAM
• registry-announce or edam-announce for low-traffic announcements
• registry-core and edam-dev for technical discussion amongst the core developers

To send mail: - registry@elixir-dk.org - registry-support@elixir-dk.org - edam@elixir-dk.org

Hangouts

Coordination meetings happen on the last Fri of each month @ 11AM CET. The hangouts have an open agenda and respond to current critical needs. Technical representatives of ELIXIR-DK institutes routinely attend and guests are very welcome: if you’d like to join mail Henriette Husum Bak-Jensen cc Jon Ison.