Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Hey all, > > I’m happy to announce that the group I’m working with has released a > preprint of a paper on reproducibility with the title: > > Reproducible genomics analysis pipelines with GNU Guix > https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/11/298653 > > We built a collection of bioinformatics pipelines and packaged them with > GNU Guix, and then looked at the degree to which the software achieves > bit-reproducibility (spoiler: ~98%), analysed sources of non-determinism > (e.g. time stamps), discussed experimental reproducibility at runtime > (e.g. random number generators, kernel+glibc interface, etc) and > commented on the idea of using “containers” (or application bundles) > instead. > > The middle section is a bit heavy on genomics to showcase the features > of the pipelines, but I think the introduction and the > discussion/conclusion may be of general interest.
This looks really great! I also like how you leverage GNU Autotools. Finally there is a paper that uses GNU Guix as deployment tool for scientific purposes. :) Kind regards, Roel Janssen
