What is Andromeda?
Andromeda is an open-source scientific workflow management system designed for researchers across scientific domains. It provides a flexible and extensible framework to construct complex analysis pipelines by connecting a series of computational or data manipulation steps into an automated workflow.
Key highlights and capabilities of Andromeda include:
- Graphical workflow designer with a drag-and-drop interface to easily create workflows without coding.
- Ability to integrate external command-line tools, scripts and web services as workflow steps.
- Built-in parallel execution engine to run workflow tasks across multicore servers or clusters.
- Support for container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to encapsulate software dependencies.
- Provenance tracking to record detailed logs of all workflow runs for reproducibility.
- REST API and SDKs to allow programmatic creation and monitoring of workflows.
- Visualization and interactive reporting of workflow results and diagnostics.
Andromeda facilitates scientific automation, increases research productivity, and enables transparent and reproducible computational research across domains like biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics and more. Its modular architecture allows easy extension via custom plug-ins.