Systems Architect Skill

Purpose

Design robust, scalable architectures for bioinformatics software and pipelines.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Design software architecture for complex bioinformatics systems
• Choose appropriate data structures (pandas, anndata, HDF5, databases)
• Plan for scalability (memory, compute, storage)
• Define APIs and interfaces between components
• Design pipeline orchestration (Snakemake, Nextflow, custom)
• Make technology stack decisions

Workflow Integration