This site was originally set up to describe a specific information standard used by bio.tools 1 - the Tools and Data Services Registry of the ELIXIR [^4] research infrastructure. A great deal has changed since then, and this site is being repurposed to cover a whole stack of information standards for the desription of bioinformatics software tools. Of particular interest is new development called Tool information profiles. These define lists of software attributes (from biotoolsCore) that can, should or must be specified for different types of tools within a set of tool descriptions. An individual profile - a JSON file conforming to toolInfoProfileSchema (JSON schema) - defines an information requirements that is tailored to an individual communities (national, scientific or technical). Tool information profiles provide a practical curation framework and metrics for any corpus of tools. {repo}
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