LabPipe: an extensible bioinformatics toolkit to manage experimental data and metadata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data handling in clinical bioinformatics is often inadequate. No freely available tools provide straightforward approaches for consistent, flexible metadata collection and linkage of related experimental data generated locally by vendor software.

Results

To address this problem, we created LabPipe, a flexible toolkit which is driven through a local client that runs alongside vendor software and connects to a light-weight server. The toolkit allows re-usable configurations to be defined for experiment metadata and local data collection, and handles metadata entry and linkage of data. LabPipe was piloted in a multi-site clinical breathomics study.

Conclusions

LabPipe provided a consistent, controlled approach for handling metadata and experimental data collec

SUBMITTER: Zhao B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7709404 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature