Planning bioinformatics workflows using an expert system.
Journal:
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Published Date:
Apr 15, 2017
Abstract
MOTIVATION: Bioinformatic analyses are becoming formidably more complex due to the increasing number of steps required to process the data, as well as the proliferation of methods that can be used in each step. To alleviate this difficulty, pipelines are commonly employed. However, pipelines are typically implemented to automate a specific analysis, and thus are difficult to use for exploratory analyses requiring systematic changes to the software or parameters used.