Ten simple rules for making a software tool workflow-ready

Paul Brack; Peter Crowther; Stian Soiland-Reyes; Stuart Owen; Douglas Lowe; Alan R Williams; Quentin Groom; Mathias Dillen; Frederik Coppens; Björn Grüning; Ignacio Eguinoa; Philip Ewels; Carole Goble

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009823

Ten simple rules for making a software tool workflow-ready

PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Mar 24;18(3):e1009823. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009823. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Authors

Paul Brack¹, Peter Crowther², Stian Soiland-Reyes^{1

3}, Stuart Owen¹, Douglas Lowe⁴, Alan R Williams¹, Quentin Groom⁵, Mathias Dillen⁵, Frederik Coppens^{6

7}, Björn Grüning⁸, Ignacio Eguinoa^{6

7}, Philip Ewels⁹, Carole Goble¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
² Melandra Limited, Stockport, United Kingdom.
³ Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Research IT, IT Services, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁵ Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁷ VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium.
⁸ Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
⁹ Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Software*
Workflow

Grants and funding

This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement numbers 823827 (SYNTHESYS Plus) for PB,QG,MD,PE,CG; 823830 (BioExcel-2) for SSR,DL,CG; 824087 (EOSC-Life) for SO,FC,BG,IE; 871118 (PREP-IBISBA) for ARW,CG and from the Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement 101046203 (BY-COVID) for SSR,CAG,FC,IE,PE,BG. FC and IE also received funding for ELIXIR Belgium (I002819N) by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). BG has also received funding for DataPLANT (NFDI 7/1 – 42077441), part of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.