A key goal of the CWL is to allow the creation of a workflow that is portable and thus may be run reproducibly in different computational environments. The CWL originated from discussions in 2014 between Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Nebojša Tijanić, and Michael R. Crusoe (at that time their respective affiliations were:
Galaxy, Arvados, Seven Bridges, and
Michigan State University) at the
Open Bioinformatics Foundation BOSC 2014 codefest. CWL is supported by multiple analysis runners and platforms such as
Apache Airflow (via CWL-Airflow ), Arvados, Rabix, Cromwell workflow engine, Toil, REANA - Reusable Analyses and CWLEXEC for
IBM Spectrum LSF, and was identified in 2017 as one of the future trends for bioinformatics pipeline development. and
Galaxy. == Availability ==