Architecture and Constraints

We identified the following constraints for our software:

• Developed under an open-source licence. We chose the tooling such that a broad spectrum of developers can in principle work on the software.
• The software is designed to be highly configurable so that it can be used for various organisms. Configuration files have to be passed to LAPIS and SILO at runtime that determine the nature of the organism such as:
  • a reference genome
  • which metadata is available on the genomic data
• The system is designed to have the best possible performance. This mostly targets SILO, but also in LAPIS, we have to keep in mind that we are dealing with potentially large data that we have to serve to the client.