Re: Guix, CWL, ravanan and reproducibility talk at UCL

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

> I am a postdoc at University College London (UCL). I have been working
> on ravanan[1] for a few years now. ravanan is a Common Workflow
> Language (CWL) runner that uses Guix to provide strong reproducibility
> guarantees and content-addressed caching.
>
> Yesterday, I gave a talk in my department at UCL on Guix, CWL, ravanan
> and reproducibility. The slides are at
> https://files.systemreboot.net/ucl-guix-ravanan-seminar.pdf

That’s a very nice slide deck, thanks for sharing!

I would encourage you to turn your talk in a post at
<https://hpc.guix.info/blog> and/or in a refereed paper.

> To the bioinformaticians reading this, it may be of interest that we
> ported pggb (the pangenome building pipeline) from the original bash
> script to CWL. Links to the original and the port below:

Do you have experience running existing CWL bioinfo pipelines “from out
there” with ravanan?

Thanks,
Ludo’.