CWL Viewer: The Common Workflow Language Viewer

Mark Robinson; Stian Soiland-Reyes; Michael R. Crusoe; Carole Goble

doi:10.7490/f1000research.1114375.1

CWL Viewer: The Common Workflow Language Viewer

Mark Robinson
, Stian Soiland-Reyes
, Michael R. Crusoe
, Carole Goble

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Abstract

The Common Workflow Language (CWL) project emerged from the BOSC 2014 Codefest as a grassroots, multi-vendor working group to tackle the portability of data analysis workflows. It’s specification for describing workflows and command line tools aims to make them portable and scalable across a variety of computing platforms.

At its heart CWL is a set of structured text files (YAML) with various extensibility points to the format. However, the CWL syntax and multi-file collections are not conducive to workflow browsing, exchange and understanding: for this
we need a visualization suite.

CWL Viewer is a richly featured CWL visualization suite that graphically presents and lists the details of CWL workflows with their inputs, outputs and steps. It also packages the CWL files into a downloadable Research Object Bundle including attribution, versioning and dependency metadata in the manifest, allowing it to be easily shared. The tool operates over any workflow held in a GitHub repository. Other features include: path visualization from parents and children nodes; nested workflows support; workflow graph download in a range of image formats; a gallery of previously submitted workflows; and support for private git repositories and public GitHub including live updates over versioned workflows.

The CWL Viewer is the de facto CWL visualization suite and has been enthusiastically received by the CWL community

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1114375.1
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2017
Event	Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2017 - ISMB/ECCB 2017, Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 22 Jul 2017 → 23 Jul 2017 http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017

Conference

Conference	Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2017
Abbreviated title	BOSC
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	22/07/17 → 23/07/17
Internet address	http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017

Keywords

cwl
workflow
research object
scientific workflows

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CWL Viewer: The Common Workflow Language Viewer

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Methods Included: Standardizing Computational Reuse and Portability with the Common Workflow Language

Common Workflow Language Viewer: (Talk)

CWL Viewer v1.0: common-workflow-language/cwlviewer

F1000Research Poster Award

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CWL Viewer: The Common Workflow Language Viewer

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Research output

Methods Included: Standardizing Computational Reuse and Portability with the Common Workflow Language

Common Workflow Language Viewer: (Talk)

CWL Viewer v1.0: common-workflow-language/cwlviewer

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F1000Research Poster Award

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