workflowr VS dvc

I would start by saying "bioinformatics world" is a very broad term. Most of it does not involve managing multiple models, which is what MLflow seems to be for. Most work is cleaning the data and interpreting the results, which is highly project-specific. Something like workflowr is generally more appropriate, but even that is an overkill for most people.

Targets stores all your data serialised on disk, and only loads them in as needed by the dependencies. For a standardised folder structure, you can take inspiration from workflowr.

Collaboration and version control are crucial in AI/ML development projects due to the iterative nature of model development and the need for reproducibility. GitHub is the leading platform for source code management, allowing teams to collaborate on code, track issues, and manage project milestones. DVC (Data Version Control) complements Git by handling large data files, data sets, and machine learning models that Git can't manage effectively, enabling version control for the data and model files used in AI projects.

What you’re describing sounds like DVC (at a higher-ish—80%-solution level).

https://dvc.org/

See pachyderm too.

10. DVC by Iterative | Github | tutorial

Platforms such as MLflow monitor the development stages of machine learning models. In parallel, Data Version Control (DVC) brings version control system-like functions to the realm of data sets and models.

I was using DVC (https://dvc.org/) for some time to help solve this but it was getting hard to manage the storage connections and I would run into cache issues a lot, but this solves it using git-lfs itself.

DVC (Data Version Control):

I have been using DVC and MLflow since then DVC had only data tracking and MLflow only model tracking. I can say both are awesome now and maybe the only factor I would like to mention is that IMO, MLflow is a bit harder to learn while DVC is just a git practically.