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Issues and draft text for "The Workflow Enabled Bioinformatician"
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how comprehensive do we want to be? and/or how opinionated? #6

Open ctb opened 4 years ago

ctb commented 4 years ago

the official snakemake docs are comprehensive, but not well organized for newbies. they are also not super opinionated, in that they give a variety of options but don't really strongly recommend certain approaches over others. so one thing we should think about is whether we want to be comprehensive in our coverage of snakemake, and/or if we want to chart a specific "good practices" path through snakemake.

one specific example of a question: @bluegenes thinks snakemake wrappers are the bee's knees, but I've been perfectly happy without them. what do we recommend to people new to snakemake, and (if we choose to recommend snakemake wrappers) how do we reduce cognitive overload?

also related to #5