SciPipe: A workflow library for agile development of complex and dynamic bioinformatics pipelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The complex nature of biological data has driven the development of specialized software tools. Scientific workflow management systems simplify the assembly of such tools into pipelines, assist with job automation, and aid reproducibility of analyses. Many contemporary workflow tools are specialized or not designed for highly complex workflows, such as with nested loops, dynamic scheduling, and parametrization, which is common in, e.g., machine learning.

Findings

SciPipe is a workflow programming library implemented in the programming language Go, for managing complex and dynamic pipelines in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and other fields. SciPipe helps in particular with workflow constructs common in machine learning, such as extensive branching, parameter swe

SUBMITTER: Lampa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6486472 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature