ReproPhylo: an environment for reproducible phylogenomics

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S1 in nbviewer: goo.gl/KzFAvj The reproducibility of experiments is key to the scientific process, and particularly necessary for accurate reporting of analyses in data-rich fields such as phylogenomics. We present ReproPhylo, a phylogenomic analysis environment developed to ensure experimental reproducibility, to facilitate the handling of large-scale data, and to assist methodological experimentation. Reproducibility, and instantaneous repeatability, is built in to the ReproPhylo system, and does not require user intervention or configuration because the it stores the experimental workflow as a single, serialized Python object that contains explicit provenance and environment information.