Developing reproducible bioinformatics analysis workflows for heterogeneous computing environments to support African genomics

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Baichoo, Shakuntala ^a   Souilmi, Yassine ^b   Panji, Sumir ^c   Botha, Gerrit ^c   Meintjes, Ayton ^c   Hazelhurst, Scott ^d   Bendou, Hocine ^e   Beste, Eugene de ^e   Mpangase, Phelelani T ^d   Souiai, Oussema ^f,g   Alghali, Mustafa ^h   Yi, Long ^e   O'Connor, Brian D ⁱ   Crusoe, Michael ^j   Armstrong, Don ^k   Aron, Shaun ^d   Joubert, Fourie ^l   Ahmed, Azza E ^h   Mbiyavanga, Mamana ^c   Heusden, Peter van ^e   Magosi, Lerato E ^m,n   Zermeno, Jennie ^k   Mainzer, Liudmila Sergeevna ^k   Fadlelmola, Faisal M ^h   Jongeneel, C Victor ^k   Mulder, Nicola ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^f PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

ⁱ University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^j University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Africa; Bioinformatics; Docker; Genomics; Pipeline; Reproducibility; Workflows

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA HANDLING; GENES; HEALTH; PIPELINES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AFRICA; DOCKER; GENOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; WORK-FLOWS;

BIG DATA;

AFRICA; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFRICA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85057383865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2446-1     Document Type: Article

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