BioInstaller: a comprehensive R package to integrate bioinformatics resources

The number of bioinformatics resources, such as tools/scripts and databases are growing exponentially. This poses a great challenge for users to access, manage, and integrate the corresponding bioinformatics resources. To facilitate the request, we proposed a comprehensive R package, BioInstaller, which includes the R functions, Shiny application, and the HTTP representational state transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs). We also established a community-based configuration pool to collect, access and share bioinformatics resources. The source code of BioInstaller is freely available at our lab website http://bioinfo.rjh.com.cn/labs/jhuang/tools/bioinstaller or popular package host GitHub at: https://github.com/JhuangLab/BioInstaller . Also, a docker image can be downloaded from DockerHub (https://hub.docker.com/r/bioinstaller).