Automatic Reproduction of Workflows in the Snakemake Workflow Catalog and nf-core Registries

Abstract

Workflows make it easier for scientists to assemble computational experiments consisting of many disparate components. However, those disparate components also increase the probability that the computational experiment fails to be reproducible. Even if software is reproducible today, it may become irreproducible tomorrow without the software itself changing at all, because of the constantly changing software environment in which the software is run.