uap – Robust, Consistent, and Reproducible Data Analysis

Authors:

Christoph Kämpf, Michael Specht, Sven-Holger Puppel, Alexander Scholz, Gero Doose, Kristin Reiche, Jana Hertel, Jörg Hackermüller

Description:

uap executes, controls and keeps track of the analysis of large data sets. It enables users to perform robust, consistent, and reproducible data analysis. uap encapsulates the usage of (bioinformatic) tools and handles data flow and processing during an analysis. Users can use predefined or self-made analysis steps to create custom analysis. Analysis steps encapsulate best practice usages for bioinformatic software tools. uap focuses on the analysis of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data. But its plugin architecture allows users to add functionality, such that it can be used for any kind of large data analysis.

Usage:

uap is a command-line tool, implemented in Python. It requires a user-defined configuration file, which describes the analysis, as input.

Supported Platforms:

  • Unix-like operating systems.
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster systems such as UGE, OGE/SGE and SLURM.
  • see Tested Platforms for detailed information

Important Information

uap does NOT include all tools necessary for the data analysis. It expects that the required tools are already installed.

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