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Common Workflow Language

open standards project
Organization open_standard Q56291707

Facts

24 properties
Instance of
open standard, community, organization, file format, workflow language[8][9][10][11]
Inception
July 10, 2014[28]
Founder
John Chilton, Michael R. Crusoe, Nebojša Tijanić, Peter Amstutz[12][13][14][15]
Author
Michael R. Crusoe, Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Nebojša Tijanić[2][3][4][5]
Language of work or name
English[25]
Official website
www.commonwl.org[44]
Has use
science, bioinformatics[23][24]
Archives at
Zenodo[26]
Board member
Peter Amstutz, John Chilton, Michael R. Crusoe, Brandi Davis-Dusenbery, Hervé Ménager, Jeff Gentry, Stian Soiland-Reyes[57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
Chairperson
Michael R. Crusoe[27]
Copyright license
Apache Software License 2.0[17]
Copyright status
copyrighted[64]
Described by source
Methods included[50]
File extension
cwl[49]
Funder
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, European Commission, ELIXIR
Hashtag
CommonWL[51]
Interested in
Workflows for e-Science, open science, Open Biology, open data, Open life sciences[52][53][54][55][56]
Media type
application/cwl, application/cwl+json[47][48]
Member of
Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, Software Freedom Conservancy[6][7]
Movement
open science movement[16]
Parent organization or unit
Software Freedom Conservancy[43]
Participant
Seven Bridges Genomics (United States), Galaxy platform, Taverna workbench, Pasteur Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Broad Institute, University of Melbourne, Netherlands eScience Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, iPlant Collaborative, Institute for Systems Biology, ELIXIR, Big Data to Knowledge, EMBL Australia, IBM, DNAnexus, CERN, Curoverse[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]
Product or material produced
open standard, open-source software[45][46]
Software version identifier
1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1, 1.2[18][19][20][21][22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Common Workflow Language en CWL
🔖 Identifiers · 9
EDAM Ontology ID
format_3857
GitHub account
common-workflow-language
GitHub topic
cwl
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11h3lfyctn
Official forum URL
cwl.discourse.group
Source code repository URL
github.com
X (Twitter) username
commonwl
YouTube channel ID
UCNQreTPvvlM0sdu2dL6Mm3Q
YouTube handle
commonwl

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🔗 Connections
Participant 13
IBM, CERN, University of Melbourne, Pasteur Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Broad Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Galaxy platform +5 more
Instance of 5
organization, community, file format, open standard, workflow language
Funder 2
European Commission, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Has use 2
science, bioinformatics
Interested in 2
open data, open science
Product or material produced 2
open-source software, open standard
Archives at 1
Zenodo
Belongs to 1
Software Freedom Conservancy
Copyright license 1
Apache Software License 2.0
Language of work or name 1
English
Member of 1
Software Freedom Conservancy
Parent organization or unit 1
Software Freedom Conservancy
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Summary

Common Workflow Language is an open standard[1].

Related Entities

bioinformatics Broad Institute IBM open-source software organization Pasteur Institute science Texas Advanced Computing Center University of California, Santa Cruz Wellcome Sanger Institute workflow language

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  1. 24w ago · TiagoLubiana · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, Software Freedom Conservancy
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    Movement → open science movement
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ EDAM Ontology ID: format_3857, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289761605|CWL (#289761605)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7899|EDAM Ontology]] #mix'n'"
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