SciApps: a Bioinformatics Workflow Platform Powered by XSEDE and CyVerse

SciApps, a lightweight bioinformatics workflow system powered by the CyVerse infrastructure, uses the Agave Science API to manage the entire cycle of analysis jobs between XSEDE HPC and the CyVerse Data Store. SciApps provides a graphical user interface for job submission, workflow creation, and management of both jobs and workflows. Each reproducible workflow, along with all inputs and results, is retrievable with a unique ID.

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