CWL and me

• Who?
• Tazro Ohta, researcher in Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Japan
• Database and computing platform for biomedical sciences
• working with CWL since 2015
• Purpose
• To analyze data in collaboration with biologists (RNA-Seq, meta16S, etc.)
• To help scientists who don't code
• To provide reliable computing environment for data analysis
• Products
• CWL-metrics: runtime metrics collection for CWL workflows w/ Tomoya @tom-tan
• Sapporo: an implementation of GA4GH WES, so-called Workflow-as-a-Service w/ Hiro @suecharo

twitter/github: @inutano

Sapporo

Sapporo: GUI

Japanese community!

• Two different but overlapping groups
• Pitagora Meetup: Main topic is "Informatics knowledges for Biologists"
• https://pitagora-network.org/
• Workflow Meetup: More "Geeky" topics including infrastructure operations
• https://workflow-meetup-jp.github.io/
• > 100 Slack members
• ~10 participants for monthly meetup
• using Pesto (former Pragli) app after pandemic
• Output
• Published CWL workflows
• Written chapters for books in Japanese to introduce CWL
• Documentation
• Blog
• "CWL Advent calendar", a blog relay on December