GATK best practices, containerisation and QC gates that turn raw reads into trustworthy results.
A variant call is only as trustworthy as the pipeline that produced it. Reproducibility — getting the same answer from the same data on any machine — is the foundation of clinical-grade genomics.
Containerise everything
Pinning tool versions inside containers removes the single largest source of irreproducibility: silent dependency drift. The same container runs identically on a laptop and on the cluster.
QC gates, not QC reports
A report you read after the fact catches nothing. Gates that halt the pipeline when coverage, contamination or duplication breach thresholds catch problems before they reach a researcher.
Reproducibility is a feature you design in, not a property you hope for.
- Version-pinned containers for every step
- Automated QC gates with hard thresholds
- Workflow managers for provenance and restart
- Documented parameters shipped with every result
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