A New Way
The LONI Pipeline is a workflow application that allows users to easily describe their executables in a graphical user interface (ie. create a module) and connect them together to create complex analyses all without having to code a single line in a scripting language. Instead of manually managing intermediate data in a script, the LONI Pipeline handles the passing of data between programs for you.
Once you’ve created a module for use in the LONI Pipeline, you can save it into your personal library and reuse it in other workflows you create by simply dragging and dropping it in.
Cross Platform Compatible
Because the LONI Pipeline is written in Java, you can work in whatever operating system suits you best. If there are tools that you need that can only work on another operating system, you can install a Pipeline server on that computer and connect from your client to do processing and analysis remotely. Learn more
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If you don’t want to define your own modules, you can connect to the LONI Pipeline server and take advantage of all the modules we have defined for use in our lab. When you create a workflow using our modules, you also get the benefit of all your processing being done on our 600 CPU computing grid. All you need to gain access to it is a LONI account.
Grid Support
If you have a grid at your disposal, the Pipeline is the perfect tool for taking advantage of all that processing power. The Pipeline can exploit parallelism in your workflow, and make processing of large data sets take about as much time as a single one. All of this without any additional work required by the user to specify how to break up the workflow.
Simple User Interface
With the clean and easy to use interface of the Pipeline, you can free your mind to think about research problems instead of system administration. Putting together workflows only requires knowledge of your tools and your goal, instead of programming languages and scripts. While your workflow is executing you can see exactly what step the Pipeline is currently on, and even see the output of a particular step when it finishes instead of waiting for the entire workflow to finish.
Pipeline Library
The LONI Pipeline provides hundreds of predefined neuroimaging solutions, including data, modules and workflows. You can put them to your own workflow, change parameters and inputs as you wish. Every time you connect to our server, the whole library will be automatically updated. A set of recently developed workflows can be viewed here.
Other Features
Distributed client-server and platform-agnostic computational infrastructure
Designing, validation and execution of modules and complete workflows
Reliable, asynchronous and secure data processing
Automated and intelligent data format conversion – Smartline
Local and remote file browser
Conditional and Iterating modules
Imaging and metadata processing – Study module
Creating parameters
Parameter transformations
Extended collection of imaging and informatics tools
Launch client from web browser – Pipeline Web Start
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