Increasing workflow development speed and reproducibility with Vectools.

Journal: F1000Research
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Abstract

Despite advances in bioinformatics, custom scripts remain a source of difficulty, slowing workflow development and hampering reproducibility. Here, we introduce Vectools, a command-line tool-suite to reduce reliance on custom scripts and improve reproducibility by offering a wide range of common easy-to-use functions for table and vector manipulation. Vectools also offers a number of vector related functions to speed up workflow development, such as simple machine learning and common statistics functions.

Authors

  • Tyler Weirick
    Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA.
  • Raphael Müller
    Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, 60590, Germany.
  • Shizuka Uchida
    Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA.