MoveApps is an open analysis platform for animal tracking data, developed with the aim to make sophisticated analytical tools accessible to a global community of movement ecologists and wildlife managers. MoveApps allows users to interactively design and share workflows composed of analysis modules (Apps) that access and analyse tracking data. Users browse Apps, build workflows, customise parameters, execute analyses and access results through an intuitive web-based interface. Apps, coded in R or Python, can be contributed by anyone developing analysis code and are made available to all users of the platform. To allow long-term and cross-system reproducibility, Apps have public source code and are compiled and run in Docker containers that form the basis of a serverless cloud-computing system. To support reproducible science and help contributors document and benefit from their efforts, workflows of Apps can be shared, published and archived with DOIs in the Movebank Data Repository. The MoveApps platform empowers the community to supply, exchange and use analysis code in an intuitive environment that allows fast and traceable results and feedback. The platform was beta-launched in spring 2021 and currently contains 125 Apps of 22 developers (internal, external and volunteers) that are used by over 1100 registered users. By bringing together analytical experts with those in need of tools to explore, answer questions and inform decisions based on data they collect, we intend to match the paces of knowledge generation and data acquisition.

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