TY - JOUR T1 - The Popgen Pipeline Platform: A Software Platform for Facilitating Population Genomic Analyses JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/785774 SP - 785774 AU - Andrew Webb AU - Jared Knoblauch AU - Nitesh Sabankar AU - Apeksha Sukesh Kallur AU - Jody Hey AU - Arun Sethuraman Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/09/30/785774.abstract N2 - Here we present the Pop-Gen Pipeline Platform (PPP), a software platform with the goal of reducing the computational expertise required for conducting population genomic analyses. The PPP was designed as a collection of scripts that facilitate common population genomic workflows in a consistent and standardized Python environment. Functions were developed to encompass entire workflows, including: input preparation, file format conversion, various population genomic analyses, output generation, and visualization. By facilitating entire workflows, the PPP offers several benefits to prospective end users - it reduces the need of redundant in-house software and scripts that would require development time and may be error-prone, or incorrect. The platform has also been developed with reproducibility and extensibility of analyses in mind. The PPP is an open-source package that is available for download and use at https://ppp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/PPP_pages/install.html ER -