PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Johan Dahlberg
AU  - Johan Hermansson
AU  - Steinar Sturlaugsson
AU  - Pontus Larsson
TI  - Arteria: An automation system for a sequencing core facility
AID  - 10.1101/214858
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 214858
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/06/214858.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/06/214858.full
AB  - Arteria is an automation system aimed at sequencing core facilities. It is built on existing open source technologies, with a modular design allowing for a community-driven effort to create plug-and-play micro-services. Herein we describe the Arteria system and elaborate on the underlying conceptual framework. The Arteria system breaks down into three conceptual levels; orchestration, process and execution. At the orchestration level it utilizes an event-based model of automation. It models processes, e.g. the steps involved in processing sequencing data, as workflows and executes these in a micro-service based environment. This creates a system which is both flexible and scalable. The Arteria Project code is available as open source software at http://www.github.com/arteria-project.