Alan Sill on Nostr: What is it about bioinformatics workflows that causes most practitioners to treat the ...
What is it about bioinformatics workflows that causes most practitioners to treat the file system like a database? Do they not teach database or data organization concepts when training people in this field? Why the zillions and zillions of directories and files with names that are jumble of character strings, numbers, and parameter sweep indices that mean nothing except to the researcher? How are reproducibility, speed, and organization supposed to happen in this context?
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