TechBlog: Bioconda promises to ease bioinformatics software installation woes

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Bioinformatics is notoriously complicated, what with its arcane command-line interface, complex workflows, and massive datasets. For the uninitiated, simply installing the software can present a problem.

A new paper on the bioRxiv preprint archive describes one possible solution, a bioinformatics-focused package collection called Bioconda.

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