An open structure and toolkit for organizing large-scale, sample-intensive biological research projects.
Quick start
PEP, or Portable Encapsulated Projects, is a community effort to make sample metadata reusable. PEPs decouple metadata from analysis by providing:
Start by writing your metadata in PEP format, and immediately benefit from metadata organization tools written in R and Python.
Handle input sample metadata formatting, parsing, and validation with our R or Python APIs, making your tool able to process PEP-compliant projects.