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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)