Execution Environments

Frank Austin Nothaft

v0.5 API

• Support data access to reads/variants over REST

• Most existing applications using API are interactive

Batch Processing• Is REST the correct approach?

• API is consistent for both local & remote data

• But, has overhead (perf + admin) for local data

• Approaches moving forward:

• Shims to current file formats

• Native interface to Hadoop ecosystem?

Common Workflow Language

• Pain point: how do we build reproducible pipelines of tasks?

• A group has started building a common workflow description language for bioinformatics:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/common-workflow-language

• Should the GA4GH take this task on?