TY - JOUR AU - Napolitano, Francesco AU - Mariani-Costantini, Renato AU - Tagliaferri, Roberto PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/21 TI - Bioinformatic pipelines in Python with Leaf JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 201 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - An incremental, loosely planned development approach is often used in bioinformatic studies when dealing with custom data analysis in a rapidly changing environment. Unfortunately, the lack of a rigorous software structuring can undermine the maintainability, communicability and replicability of the process. To ameliorate this problem we propose the Leaf system, the aim of which is to seamlessly introduce the pipeline formality on top of a dynamical development process with minimum overhead for the programmer, thus providing a simple layer of software structuring. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-201 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-14-201 ID - Napolitano2013 ER -