TY - JOUR A1 - Weirick, Tyler A1 - Müller, Raphael A1 - Uchida, Shizuka T1 - Increasing workflow development speed and reproducibility with Vectools [version 2; referees: 2 approved] T2 - F1000Research N2 - Despite advances in bioinformatics, custom scripts remain a source of difficulty, slowing workflow development and hampering reproducibility. Here, we introduce Vectools, a command-line tool-suite to reduce reliance on custom scripts and improve reproducibility by offering a wide range of common easy-to-use functions for table and vector manipulation. Vectools also offers a number of vector related functions to speed up workflow development, such as simple machine learning and common statistics functions. KW - bioinformatics KW - reproducibility KW - workflow KW - vector KW - matrix KW - spreadsheet Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48617 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-486171 SN - 2046-1402 N1 - Copyright: © 2018 Weirick T et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. VL - 7 IS - Art. 1499 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - F1000 Research Ltd CY - London ER -