Re: EBI-ELIXIR and descriptional workflows
Exactly
Abstract workflows with primary value (at least IMO) for teaching, and also for navigating TeSS and bio.tools content.
Cheers
J:)
> My understanding from talking with the TESS team is that these are abstract
> workflows and not meant to be directly executable, so no competition for
> CWL :-)
>
> One could imagine a model "finished" workflow created in CWL as a
> reference.
>
> Pe 21 aug. 2016 10:50, <jison@cbs.dtu.dk> a scris:
>
>> Hey Steffen
>>
>> The plan* is indeed to annotate such "training workflows" (steps within
>> them, and the overall thing) with EDAM, and thus
>> provide a way to link to bio.tools from the diagrams, via the API (i.e.
>> tool for this step in the workflow). It could
>> provide a nice visual way to navigate content (tools and training
>> resources) in both bio.tools and TeSS. The plan is also
>> to link to Debian packages from bio.tools. And of course, if someone has
>> made a workflow definition in CWL and the
>> corresponding workflow is available for download / use in some image /
>> container / whatever, then that can be registered in
>> bio.tools with links to download the image, CWL file etc.
>>
>> * the problem is finding time / resources to do things :-/ But in any
>> case, let's keep talking and working to push
>> ELIXIR:Debian:EDAM links. as per prev. thread a publication could be a
>> good motivator for pushing work out!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> > https://tess.elixir-uk.org/workflows/structural-bioinformatics-workflow
>> >
>> > I like it. And I very much hope this gets interlinked nicely with
>> > bio.tools so the resources of Debian Med are also found that way. It is
>> > all a bit high-level/non-existing yet to name the effort a competition
>> > to what the CWL is about. But the CWL workflows should be somehow
>> > pointed to from there. In my mind I see something like the KEGG database
>> > which has networks of interacting genes and species "implement"
>> > different parts of the reference network. One could have something like
>> > that with workflows, too.
>> >
>> > That "tess" site as a whole is about collecting resources for training.
>> > To have these activities funded, which typical grants just cannot fund,
>> > is the main achievement of ELIXIR. So, many thanks, and let us support
>> > whatever comes up and let us come up with something ourselves.
>> >
>> > Steffen
>> >
>> >
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