Broken / unmaintained applications in bio.tools

[CA2023]

Hi,
I was wondering what happens to any tools/applications in the Elixir Bio Tools registry that are not maintained and don’t work anymore? Would they be removed?

I just came across this one: https://chschoenenberger.shinyapps.io/covid19_dashboard/ which results in an error, reported the issue on GitHub and the response was “Not maintained” and ticket closed.

The Biotools registry is very useful but it would be a shame if unmaintained & broken tools stay there.

[veitveit]

Hi @CA2023 ,

Good point! You can see some benchmarks about a tool in the link to the OpenEBench web service.

We are working on integrating this information better but I fear this will take a bit longer as we are a bit low on development personnel recently.

[magnuspalmblad]

The URL (https://chschoenenberger.shinyapps.io/covid19_dashboard/) is still valid, though the Shiny app fails to start. As far as I can tell, it tries to fetch data from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 that is no longer in the same location. As @veitveit said, the uptime of services is in principle captured by OpenEBench, even if this information may not be very useful in this particular case.

I would suggest replacing https://chschoenenberger.shinyapps.io/covid19_dashboard/ from the entry with the GitHub repo, as it would likely not be that much work to redirect the R script to where the data is currently archived and run the Shiny app locally.