BioUno is a biology workflow system built using Jenkins build server. There are plug-ins written for BioUno that allow the users to use tools like MrBayes, FigTree, Beast, Bucky and others. Anybody can extend BioUno with plug-ins and tools.

There are many public clusters available, specially in universities and research institutions. Most of these clusters provide a web interface that lets the user upload input files and execute tools that are somewhat complicated or require special hardware.

Each cluster has its own web interface. And all of them have to implement functions such as e-mail alerts, job status, distributed execution, scheduling, job priotizing and abstract the call of each tool.

Using BioUno, clusters administrators, researchers and students benefit of a single web interface, plug-ins, command line interface for administration, easy back up, scheduling, job priotizing and a good set of documentation for Jenkins and BioUno plug-ins. The whole project – plug-ins included – is licensed under MIT License, as well as Jenkins.

Upcoming plug-ins

At moment we are working to create a version of Phylis with BioUno, so we are focusing around the tools bundled in this Linux distribution. This list may change with time.

• ape
• ade4
• clustalw
• blast
• beast
• bucky
• More to be included to this list