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Boutiques: a flexible framework to integrate command-line applications in computing platforms

2018; University of Oxford; Volume: 7; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/gigascience/giy016

2047-217X

Tristan Glatard, Gregory Kiar, Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong, Natacha Beck, Pierre Bellec, R. Bernard, Axel Bonnet, Shawn T. Brown, Sorina Camarasu-Pop, Frédéric Cervenansky, Samir Das, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Guillaume Flandin, P. Girard, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Charles R.G. Guttmann, Valérie Hayot‐Sasson, Pierre-Olivier Quirion, Pierre Rioux, Marc-Étienne Rousseau, Alan C. Evans,

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

We present Boutiques, a system to automatically publish, integrate, and execute command-line applications across computational platforms. Boutiques applications are installed through software containers described in a rich and flexible JSON language. A set of core tools facilitates the construction, validation, import, execution, and publishing of applications. Boutiques is currently supported by several distinct virtual research platforms, and it has been used to describe dozens of applications in the neuroinformatics domain. We expect Boutiques to improve the quality of application integration in computational platforms, to reduce redundancy of effort, to contribute to computational reproducibility, and to foster Open Science.