2016/01/01 by Peter Amstutz, Michael R. Crusoe, Nebojša Tijanić +10 · 2 citations
Decision Sciences · #Scientific Computing and Data Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.3115156.v2
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/10/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
<pre>The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an informal, multi-vendor working group consisting of various organizations and individuals that have an interest in portability of data analysis workflows. Our goal is to create specifications that enable data scientists to describe analysis tools and workflows that are powerful, easy to use, portable, and support reproducibility.</pre><pre>CWL builds on technologies such as JSON-LD and Avro for data modeling and Docker for portable runtime environments. CWL is designed to express workflows for data-intensive science, such as Bioinformatics, Medical Imaging, Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy.</pre><pre>This is v1.0 of the CWL tool and workflow specification, released on 2016-07-08.</pre><pre>The specification, in HTML format, is in the draft-3/docs folder.</pre>