Pydra - a flexible and lightweight dataflow engine for scientific analyses
Dorota Jarecka, Mathias Goncalves, Christopher Johnson Markiewicz, Oscar Estéban, Nicole Lo, Jakub Roman Kaczmarzyk, Satrajit Ghosh · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences · 2020
This paper presents a new lightweight dataflow engine written in Python: Pydra.Pydra is developed as an open-source project in the neuroimaging community, but it is designed as a general-purpose dataflow engine to support any scientific domain.The paper describes the architecture of the software, as well as several useful features, that make Pydra a customizable and powerful dataflow engine.Two examples are presented to demonstrate the syntax and properties of the package.