From 188400e30f371487a8bf6304684c305b2a03addb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: l-d-s Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 13:42:27 +1000 Subject: Create abcbs_2018.md --- abcbs_2018.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) create mode 100644 abcbs_2018.md diff --git a/abcbs_2018.md b/abcbs_2018.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b329af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/abcbs_2018.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +We show how Nix, a cross-platform package and configuration manager, can cleanly solve a number of reproducibility headaches in bioinformatics and computational biology. +Nix can easily create and manage isolated environments, and with our transparent and extremely lightweight extensions can also describe computational pipelines (workflows), manage their execution in HPC environments, and produce containers (Docker or Singularity images) for execution elsewhere. +Nix is general-purpose software with a stable and growing userbase. +We illustrate our techniques on a simple bioinformatics pipeline, and compare them with existing solutions like (Bio)conda. -- cgit v1.2.3