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Ruffus is a Computation Pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics.

Citation:

Please cite Ruffus as:
Leo Goodstadt (2010) : Ruffus: a lightweight Python library for computational pipelines. Bioinformatics 26(21): 2778-2779

Welcome

Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort.

These are Ruffus's strengths:
  • Lightweight: Suitable for the simplest of tasks
  • Scalable: Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive.
  • Standard python: No "clever magic", no pre-processing.
  • Unintrusive: Unambitious, lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well.

Please join me (email: ruffus_lib at llew.org.uk) in setting the direction of this project if you are interested.

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Documentation

Download
to install Ruffus

Simple Tutorial
Start here for a quick introduction to Ruffus

Manual (pdf)
for an-depth demonstration of all Ruffus features

Table of contents
for an complete listing of all the documentation

Frequently Answered Questions
for any common problems, clever solutions from the community

Design
to understand the design of Ruffus

Cheat Sheet
for Ruffus syntax

Get Ruffus

Ruffus is available as an easy-installable package on the Python Package Index.

Just run: 
sudo pip install ruffus --upgrade
or 
easy_install -U ruffus

The very latest (in development) code can be obtained via git : 

git clone https://bunbun68@code.google.com/p/ruffus/

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