Table 2.
Comparing and contrasting the three popular types of analysis pipelines, and how they facilitate what we envision as the three most important qualities when facilitating algorithm development and testing
Type | Zero Interfacing | Language flexibility | Lightweight |
---|---|---|---|
Standalone (Qiime, Mothur) | No | Depends | Depends |
Workflows (Taverna, KNIME) | Yes | No | Depends |
Superpipelines (Galaxy, Docker) | Yes | Yes | No |