RepeatFS: a file system providing reproducibility through provenance and automation.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Reproducibility is of central importance to the scientific process. The difficulty of consistently replicating and verifying experimental results is magnified in the era of big data, in which bioinformatics analysis often involves complex multi-application pipelines operating on terabytes of data. These processes result in thousands of possible permutations of data preparation steps, software versions and command-line arguments. Existing reproducibility frameworks are cumbersome and involve redesigning computational methods. To address these issues, we developed RepeatFS, a file system that records, replicates and verifies informatics workflows with no alteration to the original methods. RepeatFS also provides several other features to help promote analytical transparenc

SUBMITTER: Westbrook A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189677 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature