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Enabling Biomedical Science with Common Workflow Language
Project
Common Workflow Language (CWL)
Funding Cycle
2
Proposal Summary
To enable portability of complex biomedical workflows across different clouds and on-premise environments via better documentation, community support, and tooling for Common Workflow Language (CWL) with examples using Arvados and from the Personal Genome Project.
Project
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Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an essential technology for describing biomedical analysis workflows used by many organizations. Embracing CWL as a workflow standard enables reproducible research. This ensures that scientific work can be understood, independently verified, and built upon in future work.
Key Personnel
Sarah Wait Zaranek
Peter Amstutz