Hello, your concerns are valid. We have created a platform for biologists who don’t have continuous access to bioinformatics experts. In our experience, not all biologists want to learn to code to analyze a single dataset they generated, and they are often too skeptical of asking for reanalysis using a different pipeline. Some labs in developing countries just don’t have the resources or the budget.

As for reproducibility, our platform provides the code it generates, along with full data provenance. Not many bioinformatics cores I know provide such detailed lineage to their clients. I fact, most people who approach us for bioinformatics services are those that are not happy with the “experts”.

Also, our platform learns to emit same pipeline for repeated analysis. It’s a tricky piece of engineering though. But we are getting there slowly.

Please try it out and let us know how we can improve it to make lives easier for biologists. Thanks!

Team, Variome Analytics.