CWL

The Common Workflow Language is a vendor-neutral standard for describing analysis workflows and command-line tools so that they run identically across engines and infrastructures. It emphasises explicit typing of inputs and outputs and container-pinned tool definitions, which makes a workflow both portable and reproducible.

Industry: Genomics

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#Workflow #Bioinformatics #Portability #Reproducibility #Specification

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