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

[Reza Housseini <reza@housseini.me>]

Hi Arun

Thanks for sharing! Do you have any experience running this from Python?
E.g. generating the CWL files in Python? And do I understand corecctly
that ravanan is not tied to CWL and/or guix?

Best,
Reza

> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> 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:
>
> https://github.com/pangenome/pggb
> https://github.com/arunisaac/pggb.cwl
>
> Regards,
> Arun
>
> [1]: https://forge.systemreboot.net/ravanan/