[kepler-users] bioKepler 1.0 released

[Daniel Crawl]

We are pleased to announce the release of bioKepler 1.0.

The bioKepler suite facilitates rapid development and scalable
distributed execution of bioinformatics workflows in Kepler while
simplifying access to a wide range of bioinformatics tools executed
locally or distributedly. bioKepler 1.0 contains a set of Kepler
actors, called “bioActors”, which are specialized for running
bioinformatics tools along with Kepler directors for distributed
data-parallel (DDP) execution on Hadoop and Stratosphere engines.
Additionally, over 40 example workflows demonstrating how to use these
actors and directors have been packaged in this first release of
bioKepler.

bioKepler can be installed using the Module Manager in Kepler 2.4. If
you have an older version of Kepler, we recommend that you first
download and install Kepler 2.4, and then use the Module Manager to
install bioKepler 1.0. Kepler 2.4 can be downloaded from the Kepler
website (https://kepler-project.org/users/downloads). bioKepler is
built on top of DDP, provenance, reporting, and workflow run manager
modules, and does not require a separate installation of these modules.
The bioKepler website (http://www.biokepler.org) provides more
information about the project including the bioKepler User Guide and
descriptions of the bioActors and demo workflows.

We are building virtual machine images with bioKepler 1.0 for Amazon
EC2 and OpenStack. These images are based on CloudBioLinux and include
many bioinformatics tools. A separate announcement will be sent when
the virtual machine images are completed.