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Published March 13, 2021 | Version v1
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Making Canonical Workflow Building Blocks interoperable across workflow languages

  • 1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Informatics Institute, University of Netherlands, NL
  • 2. Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
  • 3. Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
  • 4. Research IT, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  • 5. European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK

Description

We here introduce the concept of Canonical Workflow Building Blocks (CWBB), a methodology of describing and wrapping computational tools, in order for them to be utilized in a reproducible manner from multiple workflow languages and execution platforms. We argue such practice is a necessary requirement for FAIR Computational Workflows [Goble 2020] to improve widespread adoption and reuse of a computational method across workflow language barriers.

Notes

Extended abstract, submitted to Special issue on Canonical Workflow Frameworks for Research in the journal Data Intelligence.

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Funding

BioExcel-2 – BioExcel Centre of Excellence for ComputationalBiomolecular Research 823830
European Commission