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ArticleGigaScience2021

Streamlining data-intensive biology with workflow systems.

Taylor Reiter, Phillip T Brooks, Luiz Irber, Shannon E K Joslin, Charles M Reid, Camille Scott, C Titus Brown, N Tessa Pierce-Ward

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Article in GigaScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Taylor ReiterDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Phillip T BrooksDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Luiz IrberDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Shannon E K JoslinDepartment of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Charles M ReidDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Camille ScottDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
C Titus BrownDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
N Tessa Pierce-WardDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the scale of biological data generation has increased, the bottleneck of research has shifted from data generation to analysis. Researchers commonly need to build computational workflows that include multiple analytic tools and require incremental development as experimental insights demand tool and parameter modifications. These workflows can produce hundreds to thousands of intermediate files and results that must be integrated for biological insight. Data-centric workflow systems that internally manage computational resources, software, and conditional execution of analysis steps are reshaping the landscape of biological data analysis and empowering researchers to conduct reproducible analyses at scale. Adoption of these tools can facilitate and expedite robust data analysis, but knowledge of these techniques is still lacking. Here, we provide a series of strategies for leveraging workflow systems with structured project, data, and resource management to streamline large-scale biological analysis. We present these practices in the context of high-throughput sequencing data analysis, but the principles are broadly applicable to biologists working beyond this field.

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Computational BiologySoftwareData AnalysisHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingWorkflowautomationdata-intensive biologyrepeatabilityworkflows

Identifiers

PMID33438730
PMCPMC8631065

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