title: Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Biosof LLC, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yachdav
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Tatyana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilzbach
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dao
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.affiliation: Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.
authors.forename: Saket
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-7633
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choudhary
authors.affiliation: Web and Internet Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Crouch
authors.affiliation: Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Franz
authors.affiliation: Linkingdata I/O LLC, Austin, United States.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Leyla J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: García
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3079-6586
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Grüning
authors.affiliation: Web and Internet Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Devasena
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Inupakutika
authors.affiliation: Institute of Structure and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sillitoe
authors.affiliation: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Anil S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Thanki
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4878-6431
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Planegg, Germany.
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Villaveces
authors.affiliation: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Maria V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States.
authors.forename: Suzanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pettifer
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatik, Biosof LLC, Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Burkhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rost
authors.affiliation: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Corpas
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
keywords: JavaScript; bioinformatics; community; computational biology; cutting edge; none; open source; systems biology; visualization