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Cromwell & WDL

Workflow engine for the Workflow Description Language

Cromwell is the Broad Institute's execution engine for the Workflow Description Language (WDL). It powers large-scale genomics on Terra and other platforms.

Highlights

  • Clean, human-readable WDL for describing tasks and workflows.
  • Backends for local, HPC and cloud (GCP, AWS) execution.
  • Call caching and provenance for reproducible, resumable runs.

Related tools

Liftoff.bio illustration — cat genomics
Open source

Genomics & Sequencing

GATK

Broad Institute toolkit for variant discovery

Command line
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Open source

Workflow Orchestration

Nextflow

Dataflow pipelines that scale from laptop to cloud

Command lineCloud platform