  With high-throughput biotechnologies generating unprecedented quantities of
data, researchers are faced with the challenge of locating and comparing an
exponentially growing number of programs and websites dedicated to
computational biology, in order to maximize the potential of their data.
OMICtools is designed to meet this need with its open-access search engine
offering an easy means of locating the right tools corresponding to each
researcher and their specific biological data analyses. The OMICtools website
(https://OMICtools.com) centralizes more than 18,500 software tools and
databases, manually classified, by a team of biocurators including many
scientific experts. Key information, a direct link, and access to discussions
and evaluations by the biomedical community are provided for each tool. Anyone
can join the OMICtools community and create a profile page, to share their
expertise and comment on tools. In addition, developers can directly upload
their code versions which are registered for identification and citation in
scientific publications, improving research traceability. The OMICtools
community links thousands of life scientists and developers worldwide, who use
this bioinformatics platform to accelerate their projects and biological data
analyses.
