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Distributed-Something: scripts to leverage AWS storage and computing for distributed workflows at scale

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Fig. 1: Distributed-Something.

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Distributed-Something is available at https://github.com/DistributedScience/Distributed-Something and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7949283. Distributed-CellProfiler is available at https://github.com/DistributedScience/Distributed-CellProfiler and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7949380. Distributed-Fiji is available at https://github.com/DistributedScience/Distributed-Fiji and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7949387. Distributed-OMEZarrCreator is available at https://github.com/DistributedScience/Distributed-OMEZarrCreator and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7949394.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Juan Caicedo and Shantanu Singh for creating the original Distributed-CellProfiler, Callum Tromans-Coia, Josh Moore and Sébastien Besson for their assistance with DOZC, and other members of the Cimini and Carpenter-Singh labs for their feedback on this project and manuscript. This study was supported by Calico Life Sciences LLC, NIH P41 GM135019, and grant 2020-225720 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

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B.A.C. conceived the project, wrote DS and DF, assisted in writing DCP, and revised the manuscript. E.W. wrote the manuscript, wrote DOZC, and assisted with DS and DF.

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Weisbart, E., Cimini, B.A. Distributed-Something: scripts to leverage AWS storage and computing for distributed workflows at scale. Nat Methods 20, 1120–1121 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01918-8

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