Whenever output
from a program could potentially be used as input to another program,
the bioLegato interfaces in BIRCH have been programmed to send output
to new bioLegato windows. In this way, data can flow easily from one
program to the
next, to create a complex data pipeline. Data pipelines have parallels
in computers and biochemistry, as illustrated below.
The tutorials below
show examples of ad hoc pipelining using bioLegato.