Figure 4:

Result of automated report generation for example workflow. This example shows the step-by-step analysis report generated with the reportGenerator from the execution log file for the RNA-seq example workflow provided with Watchdog. The workflow was described in detail in our original Watchdog publication [12]. The annotation file name (a parameter to featureCounts) and software version numbers in parentheses are automatically obtained from the log file (see software version logging). For this example, the workflow was simplified to perform differential gene expression analysis only with DESeq2, instead of 4 different gene expression analysis methods as previously described. For modules without paper description (e.g., unzipping or replicate merging), the report would contain the text “No short description given in documentation of module module name”. To shorten this example, these sentences were manually removed, as well as the citation information commonly included in the module descriptions.