Table 1 Overview of the PaPy package
From: A lightweight, flow-based toolkit for parallel and distributed bioinformatics pipelines
Package | Purpose |
|---|---|
papy | Provides the core objects and methods for workflow construction and deployment, including the Worker, Piper, Dagger, and Plumber classes (see Table 2). |
numap | Supplies an extension of Python's 'imap' facility, enabling parallel/distributed execution of tasks, locally or remotely (see Fig. 1B). |
nubio | Provides data-structures and methods specific to bioinformatic data (molecular sequences, alignments, phylogenetic trees, 3 D structures) |