title: XiP: a computational environment to create, extend and share workflows.
abstract: XiP (eXtensible integrative Pipeline) is a flexible, editable and modular environment with a user-friendly interface that does not require previous advanced programming skills to run, construct and edit workflows. XiP allows the construction of workflows by linking components written in both R and Java, the analysis of high-throughput data in grid engine systems and also the development of customized pipelines that can be encapsulated in a package and distributed. XiP already comes with several ready-to-use pipeline flows for the most common genomic and transcriptomic analysis and ∼300 computational components.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  XiP is open source, freely available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and can be downloaded from http://xip.hgc.jp.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Japan. nagasaki@megabank.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagasaki
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Yayoi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sekiya
authors.forename: Ayumu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Emi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyano
mesh_terms: D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D057188:Workflow