Snakemake as an organizational tool

Snakemake, a workflow organization tool, can be a bit challenging for a new coder to wrap their head around. But, it turns out, so it also often is difficult to articulate and actualize our goals and workflow steps as bioinformaticians. Snakemake is, more than anything, a check on our logic…and a safeguard against catastrophic mistakes (as are the norm in manual data processing).