Learning about Makefiles

I started learning about Makefiles around the time I was learning about C. I still don’t know much about Makefiles or C, but I’m revisiting Makefiles because I’m interested in using them for building reproducible pipelines. Initially I thought Makefiles were text files that were used to help compile software. However, as I learned from…

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Getting started with Bpipe

I have been using simple shell scripts for creating my bioinformatic pipelines. I define variables that can be used as parameter settings throughout the script, use some basic Unix tools for creating my output file names, and simply check the existence of files to see whether a step has been run or not. You can…

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