The EOSC-Life Workflow Collaboratory for the Life Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.352

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FAIR data, digital objects, Computational Workflows, Data Intensive Bio-Science, Fair Workflows, Fair Software

Abstract

Workflows have become a major tool for the processing of Research Data, for example, data collection and data cleaning pipelines, data analytics, and data update feeds populating public archives. The EOSC-Life Research Infrastructure Cluster project brought together Europe’s Life Science Research Infrastructures to create an Open, Digital and Collaborative space for biological and medical research to develop a cloud-based Workflow Collaboratory. As adopting FAIR practices extends beyond data, the Workflow Collaboratory drives the implementation of FAIR computational workflows and tools. It fosters tool-focused collaborations and reuse via the sharing of data analysis workflows and offers an ecosystem of services for researchers and workflow specialists to find, use and reuse workflows. It’s web-friendly Digital Object Metadata Framework, based on RO-Crate and Bioschemas, supports the description and exchange of workflows across the services.

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2023-09-07

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Goble, C., Bacall, F., Soiland-Reyes, S., Owen, S., Eguinoa, I., Droesbeke, B., … Coppens, F. (2023). The EOSC-Life Workflow Collaboratory for the Life Sciences. Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure , 1. https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.352

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Vol. 1 (2023): 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI) - Connecting Communities

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Life Sciences

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Copyright (c) 2023 Carole Goble, Finn Bacall, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Stuart Owen, Ignacio Eguinoa, Bert Droesbeke, Hervé Ménager, Laura Rodriguez-Navas, José M. Fernández, Björn Grüning, Simone Leo, Luca Pireddu, Michael Crusoe, Johan Gustafsson, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Frederik Coppens

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Received 2023-04-25
Accepted 2023-06-29
Published 2023-09-07

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