BioChef · marketing site

Documentation and marketing site for the BioChef project — a catalogue of signed bioinformatics tools that run end-to-end in your browser via WebAssembly.

Live: https://home.biochef.app/

The actual BioChef web app (the SPA users run) lives at https://ieeta-pt.github.io/Biochef/ in a separate repo.

What's here

• Why BioChef · the case for a signed, browser-native bioinformatics catalogue
• Architecture · the four-station pipeline: recipes → Hub → Registry → browser
• Workflows · the in-browser DAG editor and the catalogue of tools you can chain
• Developers · how to author a recipe, run the SPA locally, and pull signed bundles
• Community · roadmap, team, and citation

Tech

• Astro 4 (static SSG)
• React 18 (islands)
• Tailwind CSS 3 (Material Design palette)
• Roboto + JetBrains Mono
• MDX for inline architecture content
• Deployed to GitHub Pages via the workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml

Develop locally

Requires Node 20 +.

npm install
npm run dev      # serves at http://localhost:4321/
npm run build    # static build to dist/
npm run preview  # serve the production build

Deploy

Pushes to main trigger .github/workflows/deploy.yml, which builds the site with npm ci && npm run build and publishes dist/ to GitHub Pages.

License

Site source: MIT. BioChef code: MIT. BioChef paper: CC-BY 4.0 (10.1186/s12859-026-06431-1).