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
2024 activities
- GitHub app for automated workflow submission and synchronisation
- Closer collaboration with journals
- Better RO-Crate support for additional Workflow Management Systems (e.g. Snakemake, Nextflow)
- Collaborating with additional workflow communities (Galaxy Training Network)
- Collaborating with additional workflow communities (Snakemake)
- WorkflowHub manuscript
- Documentation site updates and streamlining
Future work (i.e. 2025 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
Completed activities
- Extended execution link support (additional Galaxy instances, Jupyter/Binder, Nextflow Tower, etc.)
- Generic guides and customised consortium specific guides for WorkflowHub
- Collaborating with additional workflow communities (Nf-core automatic registration and annotation)