aCLImatise: automated generation of tool definitions for bioinformatics workflows

SUMMARY: aCLImatise is a utility for automatically generating tool definitions compatible with bioinformatics workflow languages, by parsing command-line help output. aCLImatise also has an associated database called the aCLImatise Base Camp, which provides thousands of pre-computed tool definitions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The latest aCLImatise source code is available within a GitHub organisation, under the GPL-3.0 license: https://github.com/aCLImatise. In particular, documentation for the aCLImatise Python package is available at https://aclimatise.github.io/CliHelpParser/, and the aCLImatise Base Camp is available at https://aclimatise.github.io/BaseCamp/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.