Live
BioChef web app
Tools page + Workflow page; bioinformatics tools (GTO and others) running in WebAssembly via biowasm.
Community
Community & Roadmap
Track project progress, explore what is coming next, and meet the team behind BioChef.
Status
Project status
The web app, Hub CI, and Registry are live today. Agent mode and workflow aggregation are in active development. Federated learning is on the longer roadmap.
Live
biochef-hub + Registry
Reusable GitHub workflow signs and publishes recipes to registry.biochef.app.
In development
Agent mode & workflow aggregation
Server-side execution of signed bundles outside the browser, plus packaging multi-step workflows as first-class registry artifacts.
Roadmap
What is next
Planned milestones and current progress.
Complete
BioChef web app: Tools + Workflow pages
A growing catalogue of bioinformatics tools (GTO and others) compiled to WebAssembly, in-browser DAG editor, recipe persistence. Live at ieeta-pt.github.io/Biochef.
Complete
biochef-hub CI + signed Registry
Reusable GitHub workflow that validates, builds, signs (cosign), and publishes bundles to registry.biochef.app.
In Progress
biochef-recipes catalog growth
Expand the public recipe catalogue with more tools, more contributors, and richer metadata.
In Progress
Agent mode
Server-side and desktop runtime that executes signed bundles outside the browser, with the same provenance guarantees. In active development.
Planned
Workflow aggregation
Package multi-step workflows as first-class signed artifacts in the registry, alongside individual tools, so a whole pipeline becomes a single shareable recipe.
Planned
Federated learning + server runtimes
Federated Aggregator + Silo Agents, GA4GH connectors, WES/TES, MCP gateway, observability. All designed but not yet shipped.
Team
Who builds BioChef
A research team at IEETA, University of Aveiro.
Active development
JA
João Andrade
Lead developer
MR
Miguel Reis
Developer
Project leadership
Jorge Miguel Silva
Project lead · IEETA
José Luis Oliveira
Supervisor · IEETA
Past contributors
Joaquim Rosa
Original author of the BioChef SPA
Cite this work
Published in BMC Bioinformatics · 2026
Rosa, J., Andrade, J., Silva, J. M., & Oliveira, J. L. (2026). Biochef: a client-side WebAssembly-based workflow builder for genomic data analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. DOI: 10.1186/s12859-026-06431-1
Open access. BioChef code is released under the MIT License.
Get involved
Join the project
Open issues, discuss ideas, or open a pull request. Everything happens on GitHub.
Repositories
Issues & Discussions
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md in the BioChef repo for code style, build, and test guidance.