Welcome to Snakemake’s API documentation!

Build systems like GNU Make are frequently used to create complicated workflows, e.g. in bioinformatics. This project aims to reduce the complexity of creating workflows by providing a fast and comfortable execution environment, together with a clean and modern domain specific specification language (DSL) in python style.

Apart from being a command line tool, Snakemake can also be called from withing other python code and hence serve as a framework for organizing workflows withing your software. These pages describe the public parts of the Snakemake api.

For the user documentation and general information, see http://snakemake.bitbucket.org.

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