Fig. 1

A schematic diagram of UTAP2 architecture. UTAP is built on a Singularity container platform, which encapsulates all necessary software. After the user sets up a pipeline via a web interface (left), the appropriate Snakemake workflow is executed (right). Within the workflow parallels jobs are submitted to the backend high-performance cluster (HPC) for each sample in the dataset, using the relevant software and genome references. The pipeline results are summarized in a report (bottom left) for the user. UTAP2 also includes a management and monitoring system