Bioinformatics London: Kai Davenport on Dotmesh

When conducting research and processing data, software gives us an immense range of benificial tools. We can run these tools locally or use cloud providers to run code on many high-powered machines.

However, tools that manage the data we are working with are somewhat lacking. How many times have you made a copy of your dataset with a slightly different name or been unable to share reproducible experiments because of a lack of data management tools?

In this talk, Kai will outline these problems and introduce dotmesh, a tool that enables the management of potentially large datasets with a particular focus on the upcoming release of “dotscience” – a suite of tools focusing on data-science.