. The archive can also be used to automatically reproduce all results and figures presented in this work.

We thank the participants of various hackathons (e.g., the GalaxyP and IUC contribution fest, ELIXIR BioContainers and NETTAB hackathon) for porting numerous packages to Bioconda. We thank the Anaconda Inc. team and the conda-forge team for the excellent cooperation and support. The Bioconda project has received funding from Anaconda, Inc., Austin, TX, USA, in the form of expanded storage for Bioconda packages on their hosting service (https://anaconda.org). Further, the project has been granted extended build times from Travis CI, GmbH (https://travis-ci.com). The Bioconda community would like to thank ELIXIR (https://www.elixir-europe.org) for their constant support and donating staff. Ryan Dale was supported by the Intramural Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. Johannes Köster was supported by the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) via a VENI grant.

Kyle Beauchamp, Christian Brueffer, Brad Chapman, Ryan Dale, Florian Eggenhofer, Björn Grüning, Johannes Köster, Elmar Pruesse, Martin Raden, Jillian Rowe, Devon Ryan, Ilya Shlyakter, Andreas Sjödin, Christopher Tomkins-Tinch, and Renan Valieris (in alphabetical order) have written the manuscript. Johannes Köster has drafted the manuscript. Johannes Köster and Ryan Dale have conducted the data analysis. Dan Ariel Søndergaard contributed by supervising student programmers on writing recipes and maintaining the connection with ELIXIR. All other authors have contributed or maintained recipes.

No competing interests.