Unit 12: Workflow Managers
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Workflow managers are tools that help you define, execute, and monitor complex, multi-step
computational workflows in a structured and reproducible way. As analyses grow to involve many 
interdependent steps, large datasets, and heterogenous computing environments, workflow managers
provide a systematic way to encode dependencies, handle failures, and scale execution beyond
what manual execution or *ad hoc* scripting can reliably support.

This unit introduces workflow managers at a high level, then dives into two popular tools for 
bioinformatics: Snakemake and Nextflow.


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   intro_to_workflow_managers
   snakemake
   nextflow