Bioinformatic pipelines in Python with Leaf

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Napolitano, Francesco ^a   Mariani Costantini, Renato ^b   Tagliaferri, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioinformatic pipelines; Data analysis; Python

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED FEATURES; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CONSISTENCY CHECKS; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PROCESSING OPTIMIZATIONS; PYTHON;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; PIPELINE CODES; PIPELINES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84879068611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-201     Document Type: Article

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