Roadmap

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)