Methods Included: Standardizing Computational Reuse and Portability with the Common Workflow Language

Michael R. Crusoe (1, 2) , Sanne Abeln (1) , Alexandru Iosup (1) , Peter Amstutz , John Chilton (3) , Nebojša Tijanić (4) , Hervé Ménager (5) , Stian Soiland-Reyes (6, 7) , Bogdan Gavrilović (4) , Carole Goble (6) , The Cwl Community (2)

1 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
2 Software Freedom Conservancy
3 Penn State - Pennsylvania State University
4 Seven Bridges genomics
5 Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique - Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB
6 University of Manchester [Manchester]
7 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam]

Computational Workflows are widely used in data analysis, enabling innovation and decision-making for the modern society. In many domains the analysis components are numerous and written in multiple different computer languages by third parties. These

Keywords: CCS CONCEPTS • Computing methodologies → Distributed computing methodologies; • General and reference → Computing standards; RFCs and guidelines; • Applied computing → Astronomy; Earth and atmospheric sciences; Enterprise interoperability; Enterprise computing infrastructures; Life and medical sciences; Bioinformatics; Transcriptomics; Computational proteomics; Population genetics; Systems biology; Computational biology; Computational genomics; Imaging; Computational transcriptomics; • Computer systems organization → Distributed architectures; Cloud computing; Grid computing; Data flow architectures workflows; computational data analysis; CWL; scientific workflows; standards

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Michael R. Crusoe, Sanne Abeln, Alexandru Iosup, Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, et al.. Methods Included: Standardizing Computational Reuse and Portability with the Common Workflow Language. Communications of the ACM, 2021, 65 (6), pp.54-63. ⟨10.1145/3486897⟩. ⟨pasteur-03680143v1⟩