Open Peer Review Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. COMMENTARY BioJS: an open source standard for biological visualisation – its status in 2014 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] Manuel Corpas , Rafael Jimenez , Seth J Carbon , Alex García , Leyla Garcia , Tatyana Goldberg , John Gomez , Alexis Kalderimis , Suzanna E Lewis , Ian Mulvany , Aleksandra Pawlik , Francis Rowland , Gustavo Salazar , Fabian Schreiber , Ian Sillitoe , William H Spooner , Anil S. Thanki , José M Villaveces , Guy Yachdav , Henning Hermjakob 2 The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA School of Library and Information Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA TUM, Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 5748 Garching/ Munich, Germany Department of Genetics and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK eLife, Cambridge, CB2 1JP, UK Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, Open University, UK, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Computational Biology Group, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Group Department of Biochemistry, University College London, London, UK Eagle Genomics Ltd, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Germany TUM Graduate School of Information Science in Health (GSISH), 85748 Garching/Munich, Germany Biosof LLC, New York, NY, 10001, USA Abstract BioJS is a community-based standard and repository of functional components to represent biological information on the web. The development of BioJS has been prompted by the growing need for bioinformatics visualisation tools to be easily shared, reused and discovered. Its modular architecture makes it easy for users to find a specific functionality without needing to know how it has been built, while components can be extended or created for implementing new functionality. The BioJS community of developers currently provides a range of functionality that is open access and freely available. A registry has been set up that categorises and provides installation instructions and testing facilities at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/tools/biojs/. The source code for all components is available for ready use at . https://github.com/biojs/biojs 1 2 3 4 2 5 2 6 3 7 8 2 9 2,10 11 12 1 13 5,14,15 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Reviewer Status Invited Reviewers version 1 published 13 Feb 2014 1 2 report report , National Institutes of Health Philip E. Bourne (NIH), Bethesda, ML, USA 1 , University of Luxemburg, Reinhard Schneider Luxembourg, USA 2 13 Feb 2014, :55 ( First published: 3 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-55.v1 13 Feb 2014, :55 ( Latest published: 3 ) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-55.v1 v1 Page 1 of 8 F1000Research 2014, 3:55 Last updated: 16 MAY 2019