PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Charlotte Soneson AU - Mark D. Robinson TI - iCOBRA: open, reproducible, standardized and live method benchmarking AID - 10.1101/033431 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 033431 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/01/033431.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/01/033431.full AB - We present iCOBRA, a flexible general-purpose web-based application and accompanying R package to evaluate, compare and visualize the performance of methods for estimation or classification when ground truth is available. iCOBRA is interactive, can be run locally or remotely and generates customizable, publication-ready graphics. To facilitate open, reproducible and standardized method comparisons, expanding as new innovations are made, we encourage the community to provide benchmark results in a standard format.