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2021 Common Workflow Language Virtual Conference. #CWLcon2021

Organizing issue: https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language/issues/919

Presentation recordings

https://cwl.discourse.group/c/cwlcon-2021/9

Schedule and confirmed presentations

🌎🌍 Session 1 (Americas-EMEA friendly time)

  1. CWL Intro + CWL 1.2 by Michael R. Crusoe, ELIXIR-NL
  2. Building a clinically validated de-novo assembly workflow with CWL and Galaxy by Andrey Tovchigrechko, Kite Pharma.
  3. Metagenomic Data Analysis Workflows In CWL, by Juan Caballero, EMBL - EBI
  4. How We Test, Run and Monitor Software Tools and Workflows on AWS cloud using Tibanna by Soo Lee, Harvard Medical School.
  5. Scattering CWL across tabular samples and interactive computing environments from CWL by Nathan Sheffield, University of Virginia.
  6. CWL-Airflow: Recent Updates & Changes by Michael Kotliar, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
  7. SABER: Scalable Analytics for Brain Exploration Research by Erik Johnson, Johns Hopkins University APL
  8. Writing Portable CWL & Rabix Benten update by Kaushik Ghose, Seven Bridges.
  9. CWL as a medium for reproducible analyses; and a Web-based CWL authoring tool by Stephen Piccolo, Brigham Young University.

After the presentations will be small group discussions.

🌍🌏 Session 2 (EMEA-APAC friendly time)

  1. CWL Intro + CWL 1.2 by Michael R. Crusoe, ELIXIR-NL
  2. Sapporo: An Implementation Of Workflow Execution Service by Tazro Ohta, Database Center for Life Science
  3. Publishing workflows in WorkflowHub.eu using CWL and packaging with RO-Crate by Stian Soiland-Reyes, University of Manchester
  4. StreamFlow: cross-breeding cloud with HPC by Iacopo Colonnelli, Università di Torino
  5. A Way to Know How Well an Engine Supports Features in CWL Spec (Check the Conformance Badges!) by Tomoya Tanjo, National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan)

After the presentations will be small group discussions.

🌏🌎 Session 3 (APAC-Americas friendly time)

  1. CWL Intro + CWL 1.2 by Michael R. Crusoe, ELIXIR-NL
  2. ML Processing Pipelines using CWL, Deployment in Context of Research Teams and OGC-API Integration by Francis Charette Migneault, Computer Research Institute of Montréal (CRIM)
  3. Publishing CWL Workflows: Workflows for Publishing Workflows, The GigaScience Experience by Scott Edmunds, GigaScience
  4. A Brief Overview of Toil, a CWL Runner by Lon Blauvelt, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
  5. CWL @UMCCR using Illumina's Connected Analytics (ICA) by Sehrish Kanwal and Alexis Lucattini, The University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research
  6. CWL for Software Medical Devices by Paul Wighton, CorticoMetrics LLC

After the presentations will be small group discussions.

Where

  • Online live sessions
  • Talks are available for viewing and for you to post questions before the conference sessions. The videos are accessible via the links above.

Who

Please consider joining us if you are a:

  • User of CWL, at any scale or complexity

  • Workflow engine developer

  • Sysadmin, operation, and/or devops person who is running CWL workflows in production

  • Participant in the CWL ecosystem

…. Or if you just want to learn more about CWL

Code of Conduct

This event, like all CWL events, will be subject to the CWL Code Of Conduct.

More details

Over the three day period there will be three 4-hour long sessions of talks, discussions and co-working time. The session times were chosen to make them accessible to our global community. We understand that you might not be able to make all of the time for all three days, please join us when you can (That is the great benefit of virtual conferences!)

We want to have presentations from you, the CWL community. Presentations can be 5,10, or 15 minutes and will be pre-recorded and publicly available before the conference. The session time with time focused on discussion and interaction. Please let us know (via the sign up form) if you are interested in giving a talk and we will follow up with details.

We want to customize the sessions based on your ideas. Please let us know what topics and formats would be most useful or of the most interest to you via the sign up form linked above.

Presentation sign-ups are closed, but we welcome additional participants for the question and answer sessions after the talks, and the discussion break outs.

We will follow up with details regarding schedule and all the information regarding the virtual conferencing and chat system we will use for the conference itself.

Please let us know if you need any accessibility accommodations for this conference such as live captioning or video subtitling.

Cheers, Sarah, Peter and Michael

Sign up

The sign up form is at https://forms.gle/WX6SXPVDNPAgxNMC8 or if Google Forms are not accessible for you then please email mrc@commonwl.org with answers to the questions below:

  1. Email Address
  2. Your name
  3. What is affiliation would you like to use (Work Place, School, etc)?
  4. Which sessions will you attending? (see the list above)
  5. Are you interested in giving a talk? "Yes", "No", or "Maybe"
  6. If you are interested in giving a talk: What length of talk(s) are you interested in giving? 5, 10, and/or 15 minutes.
  7. If you are interested in giving a talk: What topic(s) would you like to present? (Presentation sign-ups are closed, but we welcome additional participants for the question and answer sessions after the talks, and the discussion break outs.)
  8. Do you have suggestions of a discussion session you would like to have or lead during the conference?
  9. Any other comments or questions?

Further updates

Any updates will be posted to this page and emailed to those who register using the above procedure.

To find out about future CWL events, please consider signing up for one or more of the CWL support channels (the CWL Discourse forum, the CWL Google Group, the CWL Gitter chat room) and/or following @commonwl

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