Glossary¶
- Run
- A completed, successful or failed, execution of a pipeline using CloudConductor.
- Pipeline
- A directed graph or bioinformatics tools that are executed in a certain order.
- Graph
- Synonym for Pipeline
- Module
- Node of a Pipeline graph. It can be a bioinformatics tool, a splitter, or a merger
- Submodule
- Functionality that one bioinformatics tools is providing. For example, index is Submodule for samtools Module
- Splitter
- A module that splits an input file into multiple output files.
- Merger
- A Module that merges multiple input files of the same type into one single output file.
- Resource Kit
- List of bioinformatics tools or input resources (e.g. reference genome) necessary for a Pipeline
- Sample Sheet
- Input files that are processed by a Pipeline
- Platform
- A cloud computing service that runs a Pipeline.
- Processor
- An instance/server on a cloud computing platform.
- Task
- A command or set of instructions that a processor has to execute.
- Worker
- A processor that executes a task.
- Final Report
- A file containing the entire run metadata and statistics
- Report topic
- A messenging service that receives the final report of a run