Roadmap

Please feel free to help contribute to this roadmap through the WorkflowHub Club or as feedback!

Please note that the roadmap isn’t a project plan or release schedule. The WorkflowHub Club is a very dynamic and agile team, and the roadmap is reviewed and updated regularly. It’s purpose is to give a general indication of intent and direction of travel.

See also:

• WorkflowHub implementation https://github.com/seek4science/seek/projects/3 (SEEK)
• General WorkflowHub https://github.com/workflowhub-eu/about/issues

Spring 2023

• Improved workflow branding
• Extended execution link support (additional Galaxy instances, Jupyter/Binder, Nextflow Tower, etc.)
• GitHub app for automated workflow submission
• Improved curation support
• Workflow/WorkflowHub best-practice guide

Late 2023

• Support for linking together workflows to variants and subworkflows
• Better RO-Crate support for additional Workflow Management Systems (e.g. Snakemake, Nextflow)
• Working with Workflow Management Systems to improve how tool metadata is exposed in their native formats
• Closer collaboration with journals
• Targeting additional workflow communities on GitHub, GitLab etc. (in addition to IWC, nf-core)
• Collecting basic workflow execution metrics

2024 onwards

• One-click publish of workflows to LifeMonitor
• Curation campaign
• OpenEBench integration
• Registering as a trusted registry and adhering to the TRUST principles