Reproducible Research using Research Objects: Third Year Project Report

Mark Robinson

doi:10.5281/zenodo.823295

Reproducible Research using Research Objects: Third Year Project Report

Mark Robinson

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Scientific workflows play a crucial role in conducting large scale scientific experiments and enabling them to be easily reproducible. However, it is vital that these are specified well with useful metadata for consumption by applications in order to make sharing them simple and convenient.

This project focuses on two up-and-coming standards - the Common Workflow Language and Research Objects - which complement each other to achieve this goal and thus aid in reproducible and transparent research. In order to unite these standards, this report concerns the planning, development and evaluation process of a web application, ‘CWL Viewer’, to allow the sharing of workflows written in the Common Workflow Language.

This is accomplished by providing visualisation and summary of important details as well as a downloadable Research Object Bundle designed to provide metadata relevant to workflow management and other applications.

Original language	English
Number of pages	55
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.823295
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cwl
workflow
scientific workflows
research object
reproducibility

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CWL Viewer: The Common Workflow Language Viewer

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

Common Workflow Language, v1.0

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