bein 0.95 
Copyright 2010 Frederick Ross <madhadron at gmail dot com>

Bein is a workflow manager and miniature LIMS system built in the
Bionformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility of the EPFL.  It fills
the gap for the working scientist between the classical shell and big
workflow managers like KNIME or Galaxy and major LIMS systems like
OpenBIS.

Bein is released under the GNU General Public License 3.0.  A copy of
this license is in the LICENSE file.

Installation
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You will need to have Python >= 2.5 installed on your system.  The
webclient also requires CherryPy >= 3.1, and some of the functions in
bein.utils require numpy, matplotlib, and pysam.

To install bein, in the bein directory, run

$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install


Known issues
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* Bein has no unit tests.


Acknowledgements
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The development of bein was supported by The Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics Core Facility of the EPFL (http://bbcf.epfl.ch/) and
SyBit (http://www.systemsx.ch/projects/systemsxch-projects/sybit/).


Changelog
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0.95:
    * First stable release of bein, with a manual.


Features to add someday
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* A MiniLIMS based on PostgreSQL for scaling up MiniLIMS repositories.
* A fancier MiniLIMS client.
* Refactor bein.util into submodules based on domain.
