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. 2018 Mar 29;34(17):2881–2888. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty198

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