# BioInformatics Tool for Infrastructure Automation (BiTIA) CLI utility

This is the cli utility of the BiTIA project. The other component is
`bitia-runner`. Most users only need the cli client `bitia` to submit jobs.
Install it using `pip`.

```
python -m pip install bitia --user
python -m bitia --help
```

## Configuration

TODO: Order of searching configuration file.

### Unix like systems

1. `./bitia.toml`
2. `~/.bitia.toml`
3. `$HOME/.config/bitia.toml`
3. `/etc/bitia.toml`


### Windows

1. `bitia.toml`
2. `%APPDATA%\bitia.toml`
3. `%PROGRAMDATA%\bitia.toml`

## BiTIA runner

If you are self-hosting the BiTIA server, you need `bitia-runner` as well. See
the documents of `bitia-runner` for more details. TODO.


## EXAMPLES

1. Using samtools to view a fastq file

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<h3>NORMAL PIPELINE EXECUTION CODE</h3>
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<h3>BITIA EXECUTION CODE</h3>
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