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.