Facilitating bioinformatics reproducibility with QIIME 2 Provenance Replay.

Autor: Christopher R Keefe, Matthew R Dillon, Elizabeth Gehret, Chloe Herman, Mary Jewell, Colin V Wood, Evan Bolyen, J Gregory Caporaso
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 19, Iss 11, p e1011676 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1553-734X
1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011676&type=printable
Popis: Study reproducibility is essential to corroborate, build on, and learn from the results of scientific research but is notoriously challenging in bioinformatics, which often involves large data sets and complex analytic workflows involving many different tools. Additionally, many biologists are not trained in how to effectively record their bioinformatics analysis steps to ensure reproducibility, so critical information is often missing. Software tools used in bioinformatics can automate provenance tracking of the results they generate, removing most barriers to bioinformatics reproducibility. Here we present an implementation of that idea, Provenance Replay, a tool for generating new executable code from results generated with the QIIME 2 bioinformatics platform, and discuss considerations for bioinformatics developers who wish to implement similar functionality in their software.
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