Reproducible biomedical benchmarking in the cloud: lessons from crowd-sourced data challenges

Kyle Ellrott, Alex Buchanan, Allison Creason, Michael Mason, Thomas Schaffter, Bruce Hoff, James Eddy, John M. Chilton, Thomas Yu, Joshua M. Stuart, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Gustavo Stolovitzky (+2 others)
2019 Genome Biology  
Challenges are achieving broad acceptance for addressing many biomedical questions and enabling tool assessment. But ensuring that the methods evaluated are reproducible and reusable is complicated by the diversity of software architectures, input and output file formats, and computing environments. To mitigate these problems, some challenges have leveraged new virtualization and compute methods, requiring participants to submit cloud-ready software packages. We review recent data challenges
more » ... h innovative approaches to model reproducibility and data sharing, and outline key lessons for improving quantitative biomedical data analysis through crowd-sourced benchmarking challenges.
doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1794-0 pmid:31506093 pmcid:PMC6737594 fatcat:njzmseerufcghihkoiskuqq6km