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Deep Dive Snakemake

Deep Dive Snakemake is the workflow-engine program in the reproducible-research family. It is the right route when the core pressure is dynamic DAGs, publish contracts, executor policy, and production workflow governance.

Page Maps

graph LR
  family["Reproducible Research"]
  program["Deep Dive Snakemake"]
  course["Course home"]
  capstone["Capstone guide"]

  family --> program --> course
  course --> capstone
flowchart LR
  overview["Read this overview"] --> start["Open Start Here or Course Home"]
  start --> module["Study the workflow boundary or module page you need"]
  module --> capstone["Inspect the capstone workflow and proof guides"]
  capstone --> compare["Return here when comparing with Make or DVC"]

What This Program Covers

  • file contracts, wildcard discipline, and dynamic DAG control
  • profiles, executor semantics, and publish boundaries
  • workflow modularity, CI gates, and operational proof
  • recovery, scaling, and governance under production pressure

Local Catalog Route

Local Commands

make PROGRAM=reproducible-research/deep-dive-snakemake docs-serve
make PROGRAM=reproducible-research/deep-dive-snakemake capstone-walkthrough
make PROGRAM=reproducible-research/deep-dive-snakemake capstone-tour
make PROGRAM=reproducible-research/deep-dive-snakemake test

Honesty Boundary

This program is not only a Snakemake command catalog. It assumes you want to know which workflow behaviors are contracts, which are operational policy, and which proof artifacts justify that claim.