From 7628509a52cfa8836410de3046bef32b18849aaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: l-d-s Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:11:56 +1000 Subject: Add authors + formatting --- abcbs_2018.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/abcbs_2018.md b/abcbs_2018.md index dbba6f4..363385f 100644 --- a/abcbs_2018.md +++ b/abcbs_2018.md @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ **Reproducible bioinformatics with Nix** -We show how Nix, a next generation cross-platform package manager, cleanly solves a number of reproducibility headaches in bioinformatics and computational biology. -Nix can easily create and manage isolated environments – like tools such as (mini)conda – and with our transparent and lightweight extensions can also succinctly describe computational pipelines, manage their execution in HPC environments or in parallel across a collection of machines, and produce portable containers (Docker or Singularity images) to share with others. -Nix has an extensive package collection which includes the whole of CRAN and Bioconductor, and while it lacks Bioconda's coverage of standalone bioinformatics tools, we show that Bioconda can be used within Nix expressions (with some attendant loss of reproducibility guarantees). +Justin Bedő and Leon Di Stefano -In our talk we will use Nix to specify a typical bioinformatics pipeline, and demonstrate how it can be executed in whole or in part on an HPC queuing system. +> We show how Nix, a next generation cross-platform package manager, cleanly solves a number of reproducibility headaches in bioinformatics and computational biology. +> Nix can easily create and manage isolated environments – like tools such as (mini)conda – and with our transparent and lightweight extensions can also succinctly describe computational pipelines, manage their execution in HPC environments or in parallel across a collection of machines, and produce portable containers (Docker or Singularity images) to share with others. +> Nix has an extensive package collection which includes the whole of CRAN and Bioconductor, and while it lacks Bioconda's coverage of standalone bioinformatics tools, we show that Bioconda can be used within Nix expressions (with some attendant loss of reproducibility guarantees). +> +> In our talk we will use Nix to specify a typical bioinformatics pipeline, and demonstrate how it can be executed in whole or in part on an HPC queuing system. -- cgit v1.2.3