Watchdog 2.0: New developments for reusability, reproducibility, and workflow execution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in high-throughput methods have brought new challenges for biological data analysis, often requiring many interdependent steps applied to a large number of samples. To address this challenge, workflow management systems, such as Watchdog, have been developed to support scientists in the (semi-)automated execution of large analysis workflows.

Implementation

Here, we present Watchdog 2.0, which implements new developments for module creation, reusability, and documentation and for reproducibility of analyses and workflow execution. Developments include a graphical user interface for semi-automatic module creation from software help pages, sharing repositories for modules and workflows, and a standardized module documentation format. The latter allows genera

SUBMITTER: Kluge M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7298769 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature