Abstract

Contributed Talk - Splinter EScience

Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 16:00   (H 3005)

SciTrace Use-Case: Reusability of a Custom Data Reduction Pipeline

K. Makan,Y. Fournier, O. Michaelis, A. Galkin, H. Henke
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics

The SciTrace software stack facilitates to reuse software used for scientific research. This is achieved by capturing installation procedures in a containerized environment, archiving the used input parameters and data sources, and storing all in a well structured SciTrace package. Despite still in a prototype phase, SciTrace showed its usefulness and was already applied to a number of use cases. One of such uses cases is a reusablity of a custom data reduction pipeline. With the example of FaintCOS (custom data reduction for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on-board of the Hubble Space Telescope), we will show the advantages of using SciTrace by reusing the captured reduction pipeline without cumbersome re-installation.