Open AccessUnifying package managers, workflow engines, and containers: Computational reproducibility with BioNix
Author(s) -
Justin Bedő,
Leon Di Stefano,
Anthony T. Papenfuss
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gigascience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.947
H-Index - 54
ISSN - 2047-217X
DOI - 10.1093/gigascience/giaa121
Subject(s) - workflow , computer science , software engineering , software deployment , license , software , abstraction , programming language , database , operating system , philosophy , epistemology
A challenge for computational biologists is to make our analyses reproducible-i.e. to rerun, combine, and share, with the assurance that equivalent runs will generate identical results. Current best practice aims at this using a combination of package managers, workflow engines, and containers.
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