Recently I visited the DTL Programmers Meeting, where I had a discussion with members of the SASC bioinformatics development group. For them, bioinformatics pipelines are more about scalibilty and manageablity, not about user-friendliness or readability. They opted for Cromwell, a framework language maintained by the Broad Institute.
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One of the biggest changes within the field of bioinformatics is the rise of the framework. In part four, I will focus on Nextflow, the framework build for scaling.
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One of the biggest changes within the field of bioinformatics is the rise of the framework. Frameworks are the professionalization of analysis pipelines, constructed with software development and data science in mind. With this series of blogs I will discuss a few that have crossed my path, and try to explain the essence of their design philosophy. In part three, I will focus on SnakeMake, the modern Make alternative.
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