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Introduction to Common Workflow Language

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Common Workflow Language (http://commonwl.org) is a standard for writing portable scientific workflows that can execute on a variety of compute environments and workflow systems.

What is CWL, history
Status of CWL implementations (Arvados, Toil, Rabix, Galaxy, Cromwell, cwtool, ...)
Wrapping bioinformatics tools in CWL
Connecting tools together into workflows
Best practices for writing portable workflows
Hands on "bring your own pipeline" session
Q&A on advanced topics based on audience

Prerequisites

Unix command line experience
Experience with Docker

Speakers

Michael R. Crusoe

Project Lead & Co-founder, Common Workflow Language project

Michael R. Crusoe is one of the co-founders of the CWL project and is the CWL Project Lead. His facilitation, technical contributions, and training on behalf of the project draw from his time as the former lead developer of C. Titus Brown's k-h-mer project, his previous career as... Read More →