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Tiago Antao
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Tiago Antao

Tiago Antao is a bioinformatician currently working in the field of genomics. A former computer scientist, Tiago moved into computational biology with an MSc in Bioinformatics from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Porto (Portugal) and a PhD on the spread of drug-resistant malaria from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK). Postdoctoral, Tiago has worked with human datasets at the University of Cambridge (UK) and with mosquito whole genome sequencing data at the University of Oxford (UK), before helping to set up the bioinformatics infrastructure at the University of Montana. He currently works as a data engineer in the biotechnology field in Boston, MA. He is one of the co-authors of Biopython, a major bioinformatics package written in Python.
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Using generic pipelines with bioinformatics data


Galaxy is mostly geared toward users who are less inclined to program. Knowing how to deal with it, even if you prefer a more programmer-friendly environment, is important because of its pervasiveness. It is reassuring that an API exists to interact with Galaxy. But if you want a more programmer-friendly pipeline, there are many alternatives available.

Here, we will explore Airflow, originally from Airbnb, and currently incubating under the Apache umbrella. Airflow is somewhat at the other end of the pipeline world: it is completely subject-agnostic (actually, its development has nothing to do with bioinformatics), and it is completely geared toward programming.

Getting ready

Be careful with the sources for the installation of Airflow, as some might not be up to date. At this stage, this applies to some conda packages that are available.

At the time of writing, the best approach is probably to use a standard Python installation that either comes...

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Tiago Antao

Tiago Antao is a bioinformatician currently working in the field of genomics. A former computer scientist, Tiago moved into computational biology with an MSc in Bioinformatics from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Porto (Portugal) and a PhD on the spread of drug-resistant malaria from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK). Postdoctoral, Tiago has worked with human datasets at the University of Cambridge (UK) and with mosquito whole genome sequencing data at the University of Oxford (UK), before helping to set up the bioinformatics infrastructure at the University of Montana. He currently works as a data engineer in the biotechnology field in Boston, MA. He is one of the co-authors of Biopython, a major bioinformatics package written in Python.
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