Project lifecycle

We have defined a project lifecycle to make our experiments reproducible.

A project is made of two components:

  1. the workflow: that is all your code to perform analysis and run experiments.
  2. the workspace: that is a directory on a cluster or workstation, where all your experiments take place.

We have defined templates, called cookiecutters, to setup a workflow and a workspace according to our standards.

Managing your project is a 3 step process:

graph LR A[develop a workflow] --> B[run experiments] B --> C[write a report] C --> A


Develop a workflow

  1. Create a workflow using cookiecutter-workflow-nf.
    Please, read how to prepare your workflow here.
  2. Write the code for your workflow.
  3. Add test data and package required software with Docker.
  4. Push your workflow to GitHub.

Run experiments

  1. Create a project workspace using the cookiecutter-workspace-nf.
    Please, read carefully how the workspace is organized here.
  2. Pull your workflow from GitHub.
  3. Set your experimental parameters.
  4. Run your experiments.

Reporting

  1. Create a report using the cookiecutter-report-nf
  2. Write your report including:
    • methods used and/or implemented;
    • experimental setup, e.g. parameters, workflow version etc.
    • tables and figures