التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Reproducible bioinformatics project: a community for reproducible bioinformatics analysis pipelines. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kulkarni, Neha, Alessandrì, Luca, Panero, Riccardo, Arigoni, Maddalena, Olivero, Martina, Ferrero, Giulio, Cordero, Francesca, Beccuti, Marco, Calogero, Raffaele A. |
| المصدر: |
BMC Bioinformatics; 10/15/2018, Vol. 19 Issue 10, p211-219, 9p, 6 Diagrams, 1 Chart |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
REPRODUCIBLE research, INDUSTRIAL applications, BIOINFORMATICS, DATA visualization |
| Reviews & Products: |
BIOCONDUCTOR (Computer software) |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Reproducibility of a research is a key element in the modern science and it is mandatory for any industrial application. It represents the ability of replicating an experiment independently by the location and the operator. Therefore, a study can be considered reproducible only if all used data are available and the exploited computational analysis workflow is clearly described. However, today for reproducing a complex bioinformatics analysis, the raw data and the list of tools used in the workflow could be not enough to guarantee the reproducibility of the results obtained. Indeed, different releases of the same tools and/or of the system libraries (exploited by such tools) might lead to sneaky reproducibility issues. Results: To address this challenge, we established the Reproducible Bioinformatics Project (RBP), which is a non-profit and open-source project, whose aim is to provide a schema and an infrastructure, based on docker images and R package, to provide reproducible results in Bioinformatics. One or more Docker images are then defined for a workflow (typically one for each task), while the workflow implementation is handled via R-functions embedded in a package available at github repository. Thus, a bioinformatician participating to the project has firstly to integrate her/his workflow modules into Docker image(s) exploiting an Ubuntu docker image developed ad hoc by RPB to make easier this task. Secondly, the workflow implementation must be realized in R according to an R-skeleton function made available by RPB to guarantee homogeneity and reusability among different RPB functions. Moreover she/he has to provide the R vignette explaining the package functionality together with an example dataset which can be used to improve the user confidence in the workflow utilization. Conclusions: Reproducible Bioinformatics Project provides a general schema and an infrastructure to distribute robust and reproducible workflows. Thus, it guarantees to final users the ability to repeat consistently any analysis independently by the used UNIX-like architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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