Add rule to automatically download test data
boulund opened this issue · 2 comments
Maybe it would be nice to offer a rule in the Snakefile that users can call to download example input data to use for testing?
e.g.
snakemake download_test_data
There is a small test data set available in https://github.com/boulund/stag-mwc_test_data that I often use to run tests. It's not a perfect test data set, but at least it works.
Do you have any ideas on how to improve the test data situation @AroArz ?
check https://github.com/ctmrbio/stag-mwc/tree/test_data! I made a very simple implementation what I thought your idea was, executed as snakemake --snakefile rules/sample_data/sample_data.smk.
Created a new directory .input with a sample sheet of the test data to specify the input although we might be able to work around that. The code to download the test data is not very sophisticated but it seems to work.
If we are happy with this type of system I feel the need to select other variable names as sample_data and .input might be confusing.