In recent years, there has been a growing trend among scientific researchers and institutions to move their scientific workflows to public cloud platforms. This shift has been driven by a number of factors, including the increased availability of cloud computing resources that can be easily scaled up or down as…
JSON Schema is a declarative language that allows annotation and validation of JSON documents. The benefits of JSON Schema are that it can fully describe existing data formats, and it provides clear human and machine-readable documentation. JSON Schema enables the confident and reliable use of the JSON data format. The…
I recently wrote about workflow management systems in bioinformatics, focusing on Nextflow and Snakemake. In this post, the aim is to compose a small Bioinformatics workflow to start exploring the Nextflow syntax and its features. The Nextflow documentation is extensive and provides many examples that are a helpful start. Nevertheless,…
Several alternative scientific workflow systems typically referred to as workflow management platforms are used to run data pipelines (e.g. SNP calling and performing ETL). Among the most popular workflow managers are Nextflow and Snakemake. These were conceived in Bioinformatics labs but essentially try to address similar reproducibility and scalability issues…
Our latest service update article titled Search and sequence analysis tools services from EMBL-EBI in 2022 has been published in Nucleic Acids Research, Web Server Issue. In this paper we update the community on the latest developments in both Job Dispatcher sequence analysis services as well as EBI Search. We…
Our latest service update article titled The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019 has been published in Nucleic Acids Research, Web Server Issue. In this paper, we describe the various enhancements made recently to EBI Saerch and Job Dispatcher services. Additionally, examples of integration between the resources…
After many months of hard work, the day is here! Our new paper on methods to predict 14-3-3-binding sites is out in Bioinformatics Journal. This project originated as a collaboration between the Barton Group and the MacKintosh Group on the quest for improving the quality of predictions on 14-3-3-binding sites.…