Note: Please feel free to help contribute to this roadmap through the WorkflowHub Club or as feedback!
Please note that the roadmap is not a project plan or release schedule. The WorkflowHub Club is a very dynamic and agile team, and the roadmap is reviewed and updated regularly. Its purpose is to give a general indication of intent and direction of travel.
2025 - 2026 activities
- GitHub app for automated workflow submission and synchronisation
- Closer collaboration with journals with a focus on workflow publishing and citation
- Better RO-Crate support for additional Workflow Management Systems (e.g. Snakemake, Nextflow)
- Collaborating with additional workflow communities (Snakemake)
- Scientific discipline annotations for workflows
Future work (i.e. 2026 onwards)
- Collecting basic workflow execution metrics
- Workflow / WorkflowHub best-practice guide
- Improved workflow branding
- Support for linking together workflows to variants and subworkflows
- Working with Workflow Management Systems to improve how tool metadata is exposed in their native formats
- Improved curation support
- One-click publish of workflows to LifeMonitor
- Curation campaign
- OpenEBench integration
- Registering as a trusted registry and adhering to the TRUST principles
- Extended execution link support for additional workflow types (e.g. Jupyter/Binder, Nextflow, etc.)
Completed activities
- WorkflowHub manuscript
- Collaborating with Galaxy Training Network (GTN): workflows registered with WorkflowHub (see GTN news article)
- Documentation site updates and streamlining
- Extended execution link support for additional Galaxy instances
- Generic guides and customised consortium specific guides for WorkflowHub
- Collaborating with additional workflow communities (Nf-core automatic registration and annotation)