Category: tools
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Enhancing Portability and Consistency: A Dive into Containerisation Platforms
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Containerization platforms are tools that package an application and its dependencies into a standardized unit called a container. This allows the application to run consistently across different computing environments, ensuring that the software behaves the same regardless of where it’s executed. Containers are lightweight, portable, and provide isolated environments for…
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NGS Workflow Management Systems
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Workflow management systems (WMS) like Nextflow, Bpipe, and JANIS are designed to streamline the execution of complex, multi-step computational processes, especially common in bioinformatics and other data-intensive fields. They address key challenges in managing workflows, such as reproducibility, scalability, and automation. To get an intuition about automation and efficiency, think…
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Object-oriented programming (OOP) intuition
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Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a paradigm that organizes software design around data, or objects, rather than functions and logic. Here’s a simple explanation to understand the intuition behind OOP, especially when compared to non-object-oriented programming languages: Intuition of Object-Oriented Programming Imagine you’re building a small city with various types of…