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ArticleNucleic acids research2026

bio.tools: an expanded web service for research software in the life sciences.

Ana I S Mendes, Hans Ienasescu, Christian A T Andersen, Erin Calhoun, Piotr J Chmura, Keiler Collier, Iosif Goga, Ove J R Gustafsson, Matúš Kalaš, Mads Kierkegaard and 14 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Ana I S MendesDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0008-5170-0927
Hans IenasescuIndependent Researcher, Timișoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-9727-2544
Christian A T AndersenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Erin CalhounDepartment of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, PO Box 6050 Stakkevollan, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway.ORCID 0009-0003-3752-7156
Piotr J ChmuraNovo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9371-6918
Keiler CollierUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757500, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4057-4282
Iosif GogaWest University of Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania.
Ove J R GustafssonAustralian BioCommons, University of Melbourne, 21 Bedford St (Level 2), North Melbourne, Victoria 3051, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2977-5032
Matúš KalašELIXIR Norway and Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803N-5020 Bergen, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-1509-4981
Mads KierkegaardDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Niclas K NielsenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Erik JaanisoInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID 0009-0003-4246-6546
Jennifer R B JensenDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Adriaan-Alexander LudlELIXIR Norway and Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803N-5020 Bergen, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-3461-4644
Hervé MénagerInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, 75015 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7552-1009
Magnus PalmbladCenter for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5865-8994
Zsófia MagyarDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Tomáš RačekNational Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 625 00, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-0296-2452
Adrián RošinecNational Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 625 00, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-7748-5590
Filip RuszFaculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic.ORCID 0009-0002-0046-9725
Mariia Steeghs-TurchinaBiomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0852-4752
Aleksandra SzmigielDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0002-8526-8577
Radka SvobodováNational Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 625 00, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-3840-8760
Veit SchwämmleDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9708-6722

Funding

ELIXIRMinisterstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy LM2023055NWO ICT.001.TDCC.005Research Council of Norway 322392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational methods are central to the life sciences. The rapid growth and diversification of software tools and databases make it difficult to find, compare, and reuse methods for a given task. bio.tools is a community-driven registry designed to improve the visibility of research software and allow researchers to simplify access to the software ecosystem through structured, interoperable, and accessible metadata. Tools are annotated using the EDAM ontology and additional controlled vocabularies, enabling users to search and filter by scientific topics, operations, input/output data types, and data formats. bio.tools supports interactive exploration via rich tool landing pages and provides programmatic access through a documented API for search, retrieval, and registry statistics. The registry has expanded to almost 33,000 annotated tools through the combined contributions of thousands of community members and semi-automated literature mining that keep the registry up to date. Recent improvements to the registry include machine-assisted scoring to prioritise curator review, and consolidation of both its standards stack and software architecture. bio.tools has also become a foundational upstream metadata source that is reused by other services in the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem and beyond, to support synchronisation, cross-linking, and additional downstream services. bio.tools is freely available at https://bio.tools.

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Biological Science DisciplinesComputational BiologySoftwareBiocurationData MiningInternetMetadataRegistries

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PMID42363751
PMCPMC13355044

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