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= Introduction =

= Introduction =

GNU Make is often thought of as a tool for managing the compilation of large C programs. This is true, but it's potential is not limited to this!   

GNU Make is often thought of as a tool for managing the compilation of large C programs. This is true, but its potential is not limited to this!   

At its core, it is a generic pipelining framework that is aware of dependencies and can run steps in parallel.  

At its core, it is a generic pipelining framework that is aware of dependencies and can run steps in parallel.  

Statistical genetics analyses often requires multiple steps to prepare the data, running computationally expensive analyses, and then collating the data.  

Statistical genetics analyses often requires multiple steps to prepare the data, running computationally expensive analyses, and then collating the data.  

Make allows you to redo part of your analyses and rerun only the parts which are affected by the change by carefully deleting indicator files.

Make allows you to redo part of your analyses and rerun only the parts which are affected by the change.

Using Make potentially save you lots of time and hair pulling especially when your supervisor asks for ALL the analyses again but this time only with rare variants.

Using Make potentially save you lots of time and hair pulling especially when your supervisor asks for ALL the analyses again but this time only with rare variants.