Semantic versioning

BALSAMIC is following Semantic Versioning.

Since October 24, 2018 the following changes were added in addition to SemVer also to cover Bioinformatic and data analysis aspect of it:

• major:

  • Structural changes to the BALSAMIC workflow. This includes reordering of annotation softwares or sources, variant callers, aligners, quality trimmers, and/or anything other than QC reporting and rule all.

  • Addition of annotation softwares or sources, variant callers, aligners, quality trimmers, and/or anything other than QC reporting

• minor:

  • Under the hood changes to rules that won’t affect output results of workflow.

  • Addition of new bioinfo tools for QC reporting.

  • Updating version of a Bioinformatic software or data resource (including annotation sources)

• patch:

  • Any bug fix and under the hood changes that won’t impact end-users run.

  • Changes to resource allocation of Scheduler job submission

The rational for versioning is heavily inspired from BACTpipe: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1254248 and https://github.com/ctmrbio/BACTpipe)