The Biological Research (application controller) Obsolescence Kit (brokit - canonically pronounced 'brah-kit') package contains scikit-bio CommandLineApplication subclasses (i.e., application controllers) for bioinformatics applications. This is intended to be a temporary package for the application controllers that are used in QIIME as we figure out which of these we will continue to support.

Note: brokit is currently under active development and its API is not stable. Major compatibility-breaking API changes will likely happen as development progresses.

brokit derives from code written by our bros for PyCogent and QIIME, and the contributors and/or copyright holders have agreed to make the code they wrote for PyCogent and/or QIIME available under the BSD license. The contributors to PyCogent and/or QIIME modules that have been ported to brokit are: Rob Knight (@rob-knight), Gavin Huttley (@gavin-huttley), Daniel McDonald (@wasade), Micah Hamady, Antonio Gonzalez (@antgonza), Sandra Smit, Greg Caporaso (@gregcaporaso), Jai Ram Rideout (@ElBrogrammer), Cathy Lozupone (@clozupone), Mike Robeson (@mikerobeson), Marcin Cieslik, Peter Maxwell, Jeremy Widmann, Zongzhi Liu, Michael Dwan, Logan Knecht (@loganknecht), Andrew Cochran, Jose Carlos Clemente (@cleme), Damien Coy, and Levi McCracken.