Comparison of GobyWeb with other NGS Analysis Systems.

Notes: (1) Supports text files.(2) Supports any file format.(3) Supports Goby compressed file formats.(4) Supports BAM.(5) Provides a scripting language specialized for pipeline development.(6) Pipelines can be constructed by connecting components graphically.(7) Pipelines are optimized for analysis of large HTS datasets.(8) For example, installs Perl on Windows, but not on other platforms.(9) Data often needs to be installed on execution server.(10) Relies on remote web services.(11) Very few file formats support parallelization.(12) Runs analyses on a single server.(13) All analyses are fully parallel.(14) Deploys to Amazon AWS for Hadoop.(15) Some extensions support execution on grid.