The Orac-dr pipeline (SUN/230) is a suite of recipes and primitives for the automated processing of raw instrument data into scientifically-useable products. However, this is only the start point for the analysis and further operations on these data is inevitable. The PIpeline for Combining and Analyzing Reduced Data (Picard) is a modification to Orac-dr which allows pipeline-processed data to be manipulated using generic, instrument-independent methods. Furthermore, it is inefficient to begin at the computationally-expensive raw data stage again for every minor adjustment to the analysis. Thus Orac-dr and Picard together represent two halves of the data reduction and analysis workflow.
This document will describe the basics of using Picard and contains a summary of available processing recipes.
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